Coral reef ecosystems of Reserva Natural de La Parguera (Puerto Rico): spatial and temporal patterns in fish and benthic communities (2001-2007)

Since 1999, NOAA’s Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, Biogeography Branch (CCMA-BB) has been working with federal and territorial partners to characterize monitor and assess the status of the marine environment in southwestern Puerto Rico. This effort is part of the broader NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program’s (CRCP) National Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring Program (NCREMP). With support from CRCP’s NCREMP, CCMA conducts the “Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring project” (CREM) with goals to: (1) spatially characterize and monitor the distribution, abundance and size of marine fauna associated with shallow water coral reef seascapes (mosaics of coral reefs, seagrasses, sand and mangroves); (2) relate this information to in situ fine-scale habitat data and the spatial distribution and diversity of habitat types using benthic habitat maps; (3) use this information to establish the knowledge base necessary for enacting management decisions in a spatial setting; (4) establish the efficacy of those management decisions; and (5) develop data collection and data management protocols. The monitoring effort of the La Parguera region in southwestern Puerto Rico was conducted through partnerships with the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER). Project funding was primarily provided by NOAA CRCP and CCMA. In recent decades, scientific and non-scientific observations have indicated that the structure and function of the coral reef ecosystem in the La Parguera region have been adversely impacted by a wide range of environmental stressors. The major stressors have included the mass Diadema die off in the early 1980s, a suite of hurricanes, overfishing, mass mortality of Acropora corals due to disease and several coral bleaching events, with the most severe mass bleaching episode in 2005. The area is also an important recreational resource supporting boating, snorkeling, diving and other water based activities. With so many potential threats to the marine ecosystem several activities are underway or have been implemented to manage the marine resources. These efforts have been supported by the CREM project by identifying marine fauna and their spatial distributions and temporal dynamics. This provides ecologically meaningful data to assess ecosystem condition, support decision making in spatial planning (including the evaluation of efficacy of current management strategies) and determine future information needs. The ultimate goal of the work is to better understand the coral reef ecosystems and to provide information toward protecting and enhancing coral reef ecosystems for the benefit of the system itself and to sustain the many goods and services that it offers society. This Technical Memorandum contains analysis of the first seven years of fish survey data (2001-2007) and associated characterization of the benthos. The primary objectives were to quantify changes in fish species and assemblage diversity, abundance, biomass and size structure and to provide spatially explicit information on the distribution of key species or groups of species and to compare community structure across the seascape including fringing mangroves, inner, middle, and outer reef areas, and open ocean shelf bank areas.

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2010

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2009

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2010

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2010

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O desenvolvimento econômico e o meio ambiente estão indissoluvelmente vinculados e devem ser tratados mediante a mudança do conteúdo, das modalidades e das utilizações do crescimento, devendo ser levados em consideração critérios fundamentais de equidade social, prudência ecológica e eficiência econômica. Recentemente tem ocorrido uma intensificação do debate sobre as consequências do aumento sem precedentes da escala do sistema econômico sobre o capital natural da Terra. A Economia Ecológica preconiza a integração de conceitos das ciências econômicas e das demais ciências sociais e políticas e das ciências naturais, notadamente a Ecologia, oferecendo uma perspectiva integrada e biofísica das interações do meio ambiente. Assim, a Economia Ecológica traz implícita a ideia de uma agenda de pesquisa verdadeiramente "transdisciplinar" e está fundamentada na visão pré-analítica que considera a economia um subsistema inserido em um sistema maior, finito e materialmente fechado (porém, aberto ao fluxo energético solar). O enfoque deve, então, promover a sustentabilidade dos bens e serviços ecossistêmicos e, para tanto, deve estar apoiado em componentes estruturais como: "escala" sustentável de exploração; "alocação" dos bens e serviços ecossistêmicos; "distribuição" desses bens e serviços; e o "princípio da precaução".

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2010

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2010

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2008

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2009