Evaluating coral reef benthic communities in remote Caribbean Atolls (Quitasueño, Serrana, and Roncador Banks) to recommend marine-protected areas for the seaflower biosphere reserve

Atoll Research Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 531-542, 2005, Pages 1-65

  Sánchez, Juan Armando ^a   Pizarro, Valeria ^b   Acosta de Sánchez, Alison R ^a   Castillo, Paula A ^c   Herron, Pilar ^b   Martínez, Juan Camilo ^b   Montoya, Phanor ^c   Orozco, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b Corp para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Archipielago de San Andres y Providencia CORALINA ^*  (Colombia)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS Y COSTERAS INVEMAR   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CORAL REEF; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PROTECTED AREA; RESERVE DESIGN; SITE SELECTION;

COLOMBIA; SEAFLOWER BIOSPHERE RESERVE; SOUTH AMERICA;

ACROPORA PALMATA; ANTHOZOA; DIADEMA ANTILLARUM; DIPLORIA; ECHINOIDEA; ECHINOMETRA VIRIDIS; LOBOPHORA VARIEGATA; MONTASTRAEA; PROVIDENCIA; PSEUDOPTEROGORGIA BIPINNATA; RONCADOR;

EID: 33144486850     PISSN: 00775630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5479/si.00775630.531.1     Document Type: Article

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