The Jamaican CARICOMP Site: using a temporal data set to assist in managing coastal resources

Discovery Bay is one of nine sites around Jamaica’s coastline, soon to gain the legislative protection of Fish Sanctuary (and Scientific Reserve) status. Cumulative natural and anthropogenic impacts drove the 1980’s coral to algae phase shift. Discovery Bay CARICOMP data (1994 to 2007) showed an inc...

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Main Authors: Peter Gayle, Bernadette Charpentier, Omar Spence, Adrian Levrel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vicerractoría Investigación 2010-10-01
Series:Revista de Biología Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442010000700006&lng=en&tlng=en