Regional Research Plan – Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem

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  Posted on December 30th, 2011

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  One for the Seabirds… or One-third…

  

  Fish populations play a critical role in the feeding habits of seabirds. Healthy populations of fish provide subsistence to many species of birds, some of which are threatened, or in dire straits. Read about Dr. Valdés-Pizzini’s comments on a recent article in Science that mentions the importance of sustaining bird populations by ecosystem-based management and how a UPR Sea Grant-funded study on seabirds from the Monito Islet, Mona Channel, Puerto Rico described their foraging habits!

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  Posted on December 20th, 2011

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  Caribbean Marine Biodiversity: Has much changed over the past few years?

  

  The 2005 publication of “Caribbean Marine Biodiversity: The known and the unknown” presents a general description of the major marine ecosystems and species found (“knowns”) and the studies that must be addressed in each country (“unknowns”) to better understand the its present and future status of Caribbean marine biodiversity in order to establish better resources management practices in the region. In a more recent publication (2010) by Miloslavich and a team of 16 other experts, the regional estimates and distribution patterns of marine biodiversity were re-evaluated based on major activities conducted by the Census of Marine Life Program. Read more about whether advances in characterizing marine biodiversity has changed since 2005 and how our assessment coincides with some of their conclusions!

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  Posted on August 31st, 2011

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  Survey – Ten Year Build-Out Plans – CariCOOS

  

  CariCOOS (http://www.caricoos.org/drupal) is the observing arm of the Caribbean Regional Association for Integrated Coastal Ocean Observing (CaRA; http://cara.uprm.edu/). This effort, funded by the NOAA IOOS office, is one of eleven coastal observing systems and regional associations, which along with federal agencies constitute the national coastal component of the US Integrated Ocean Observing System.
  In the implementation [...]

• This Week's Comment

  Posted on August 22nd, 2011

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  Ciguatera and Lionfish – Should we worry?

  

  With the rapid increase of lionfish in seawaters, some concern has come up regarding the possibility of ciguatera poisoning associated with lionfish consumption. However, inconclusive information on ciguatera in lionfish may be a deterrent to one of the few tools that we have to manage with this particular invasive species: promoting its consumption. Read more about it!

• This Week's Comment

  Posted on August 11th, 2011

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  Helpful Search Tips for the Best Results from our Database

  

  The Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem Publication Database consists of reliable sources of information found in peer-reviewed scientific journals, books, websites, thesis/dissertations, and government documentation associated with marine/coastal management and conservation in the Caribbean region from 1998 to the present. Over 50% of the resources found in the database are freely available online.
  However, it is NOT [...]

• This Week's Comment

  Posted on July 7th, 2011

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  Commerce and NOAA aim for sustainable domestic aquaculture

  

  The Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released new national policies aimed towards sustainable marine aquaculture practices to cope with the increasing demand for seafood production, to promote job creation associated with coastal communities, and to restore critical ecosystems (Read the full news article here.) Among the priorities set [...]

• This Week's Comment

  Posted on June 2nd, 2011

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  More on history and mangroves…

  

  The historical perspective on mangroves is becoming extremely important for understanding the so-called “natural history” of coastal ecosystems. The Martunnizi et al (2008) paper I discussed in the previous entry in this blog (click here to read about it) is an example of such a perspective.  Dahdouh-Guebas and Koedam (2008) published an interesting article on [...]

• This Week's Comment

  Posted on May 24th, 2011

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  Strategies for mangrove conservation in Puerto Rico

  

  The debate on the amount of mangrove cover lost in Puerto Rico throughout the twentieth century continues unabated.  A recent article by Martinuzzi et al (2008) [1] revives the issue with new data, maps, remote sensing images, corrections of past estimates, and trend analyses of mangrove cover.  The paper, published in Forest Ecology and Management, [...]

• This Week's Comment

  Posted on April 4th, 2011

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  UNDP – Latin America and Caribbean, a Biodiversity Super Power

  

  The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently declared Latin America and the Caribbean as a Biodiversity Super Power, stated in their recently published report on the economic contribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services of the region (Bovarnick, A., F. Alpizar, C. Schnell, Editors. The Importance of Biodiversity and Ecosystems in Economic Growth and Equity in [...]

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  Posted on March 14th, 2010

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  New, Free Online Training Course for Reef Managers (TNC)

  

  As posted in Coral-List on March 11, 2010 (http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/pipermail/coral-list/2010-March/039880.html):
  The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with NOAA and with support from MacArthur Foundation, is offering a new virtual training program on Reef Resilience to provide coral reef managers, trainers, and policymakers guidance on building resilience to climate change into the design of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and [...]

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