Culebra Community Watershed Action Plan for Water Quality and Coral Reefs (original) (raw)

TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Thirteen years of climate-related non-linear disturbance and coral reef ecological collapse: Culebra Island, Puerto Rico (4 – 81) Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado Chapter 2: Decadal-scale demographics of massive bleaching and mortality in the major Caribbean reef-building star coral, Montastraea annularis (Ellis & Solander): A modeling approach (82 – 109) Raisa Hernández-Pacheco, Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado, & Alberto M. Sabat Chapter 3: Sediment stress, water turbidity, and sewage pollution associated to rapid degradation of Federal Designated Critical Habitats of the threatened Elkhorn Coral (Acropora palmata) in Vega Baja, P.R. (110 – 247) Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado, Yahaira Hutchinson-Delgado, Ricardo Laureano, Raisa Hernández-Pacheco, Tagrid M. Ruiz- Maldonado, Julio Oms, and Pedro L. Díaz Chapter 4: Biological characterization of shallow-water coral reef communities across a water quality stress gradient within the Canal Luis Peña Natural Reserve, Culebra Island, Puerto Rico (248 – 326) Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado, Jeiger Medina, Vanessa Ortiz, Marilisa Mas, Pablo A. Marrero, H. Mattei, & José Norat-Ramírez Chapter 5: Baseline biological characterization of coral reefs at Punta Cucharas Natural Reserve, Ponce, PR (327 – 379) Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado