Monitoreo del arrecife coralino Meager Shoal, Parque Nacional Cahuita, Costa Rica (sitio CARICOMP)
<abstract language="eng">Monitoring of the Meager Shoal coral reef, Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica (CARICOMP site). The coral reefs at Cahuita National Park, Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, specifically at the CARICOMP site Meager Shoal, have been monitored since 1999. Complete dat...
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Vicerractoría Investigación
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| description | <abstract language="eng">Monitoring of the Meager Shoal coral reef, Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica (CARICOMP site). The coral reefs at Cahuita National Park, Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, specifically at the CARICOMP site Meager Shoal, have been monitored since 1999. Complete data sets from 2000 and 2004 have shown that live coral cover has increased less than 3 % (from 15 to 17 %), but non-coralline algae cover has increased much (63 to 74 %) and coralline algae cover has decreased (17 to 5 %) significantly. The proportion of affected colonies by diseases, injuries and bleaching decreased from 24 % in 2000 to 10 % in 2004, but the difference was not statistically significant. Densities of the urchin Diadema antillarum increased, and are probably help to maintain the macroalgae biomass low, while those of Echinometra viridis decreased significantly. The coral reef at Cahuita National Park continues to be impacted by chronic terrigenous sediments and does not show a significant recovery since the late 1970’s. Rev. Biol. Trop. 54 (3): 755-763. Epub 2006 Sept. 29. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0591ac84ea864674ae3187d5d797a7182023-09-02T21:07:26ZengVicerractoría InvestigaciónRevista de Biología Tropical0034-77442215-20752006-09-01543755763Monitoreo del arrecife coralino Meager Shoal, Parque Nacional Cahuita, Costa Rica (sitio CARICOMP)Ana C Fonseca EEva SalasJorge Cortés<abstract language="eng">Monitoring of the Meager Shoal coral reef, Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica (CARICOMP site). The coral reefs at Cahuita National Park, Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, specifically at the CARICOMP site Meager Shoal, have been monitored since 1999. Complete data sets from 2000 and 2004 have shown that live coral cover has increased less than 3 % (from 15 to 17 %), but non-coralline algae cover has increased much (63 to 74 %) and coralline algae cover has decreased (17 to 5 %) significantly. The proportion of affected colonies by diseases, injuries and bleaching decreased from 24 % in 2000 to 10 % in 2004, but the difference was not statistically significant. Densities of the urchin Diadema antillarum increased, and are probably help to maintain the macroalgae biomass low, while those of Echinometra viridis decreased significantly. The coral reef at Cahuita National Park continues to be impacted by chronic terrigenous sediments and does not show a significant recovery since the late 1970’s. Rev. Biol. Trop. 54 (3): 755-763. Epub 2006 Sept. 29.http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442006000300006coral reefmonitoringCARICOMPCahuitaCaribbeanCosta Ricaarrecife de coralmonitoreoCARICOMPCahuitaCaribeCosta Rica |
| spellingShingle | Ana C Fonseca E Eva Salas Jorge Cortés Monitoreo del arrecife coralino Meager Shoal, Parque Nacional Cahuita, Costa Rica (sitio CARICOMP) Revista de Biología Tropical coral reef monitoring CARICOMP Cahuita Caribbean Costa Rica arrecife de coral monitoreo CARICOMP Cahuita Caribe Costa Rica |
| title | Monitoreo del arrecife coralino Meager Shoal, Parque Nacional Cahuita, Costa Rica (sitio CARICOMP) |
| title_full | Monitoreo del arrecife coralino Meager Shoal, Parque Nacional Cahuita, Costa Rica (sitio CARICOMP) |
| title_fullStr | Monitoreo del arrecife coralino Meager Shoal, Parque Nacional Cahuita, Costa Rica (sitio CARICOMP) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Monitoreo del arrecife coralino Meager Shoal, Parque Nacional Cahuita, Costa Rica (sitio CARICOMP) |
| title_short | Monitoreo del arrecife coralino Meager Shoal, Parque Nacional Cahuita, Costa Rica (sitio CARICOMP) |
| title_sort | monitoreo del arrecife coralino meager shoal parque nacional cahuita costa rica sitio caricomp |
| topic | coral reef monitoring CARICOMP Cahuita Caribbean Costa Rica arrecife de coral monitoreo CARICOMP Cahuita Caribe Costa Rica |
| url | http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442006000300006 |
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