NOAA's new island-wide reef fish and coral monitoring program in the US Caribbean
"NOAAs Coral Reef Conservation Program has developed a national coral reef fish and coral monitoring plan throughout the US Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean. The goal of the monitoring plan is to use consistent and standardized approaches to collect biolo...
Integrated biogeographic assessments: Objective approaches for managing coastal resources and conserving biodiversity in small islands states
"Caribbean coral ecosystems have deteriorated and now exhibit reduced coral cover. Also, many reef-associated fishes and invertebrates that maintain reef productivity also support livelihoods, and they have become rare because of extractive multispecies f...