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Mexico has committed to protecting 30% of its marine territory by 2030 to comply with Target 3 of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted during the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. In this paper, we demonstrate the feasibility of meeting this commitment by determining the marine extent o...
Abiotic factors and human impact have a considerable influence on reef corals driving their dynamics and distribution. Most studies on coral reefs address only biological variables that cannot alone explain the predominant stressors and processes. For this work, we studied 46 shallow reefs and 48 deep reefs between 2010 and 2013 in the Cuban archip...
Strong earthquakes (magnitude ≥7) occur worldwide affecting different cities and countries while causing great human, ecological and economic losses. The ability to forecast strong earthquakes on the long-term basis is essential to minimize the risks and vulnerabilities of people living in highly active seismic areas. We have studied seismic activi...
Noticeable within the Mexican Caribbean is the Arrecife de Puerto Morelos National Park (APMNP), a marine protected area established as an essential component for managing and protecting coral reefs. In June 2019, we conducted a survey in eight shallow reef sites of the APMNP with the purpose of applying a coral reef assessment method, based on bio...
Citation: Velasco Herrera, V.M.V.; Martell-Dubois, R.; Soon, W.; Velasco Herrera, G.; Cerdeira-Estrada, S.; Zúñiga, E.; Rosique-de la Cruz, L. Predicting Atlantic Hurricanes Using Machine Learning. Atmosphere 2022, 13, 707. https://doi.
The map represents the spatial distribution of benthic habitats in shallow waters of the Mexican Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, from Cabo Catoche to Xcalak, in an area of 1001 km2, with an average maximum depth of 18 m. The resulting map defined 50 classes generated from the union of benthic cover and submarine relief maps, estimated from the pr...
The boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere (i.e., covering the USA, Canada and Russia) are the grandest carbon sinks of the world. A significant increase in wildfires could cause disequilibrium in the Northern boreal forest’s capacity as a carbon sink and cause significant impacts on wildlife and people worldwide. That is why the ability to fore...
Tarjeta de Reporte del estado de los Pastizales Marinos. Parque Nacional Arrecife de Puerto Morelos, México, 2019. Sistema de alerta de la condición ecológica de los ecosistemas marino costeros (EcoSAT), del Sistema de Información y Análisis Marino y Costero (SIMAR),
Conabio, México
This dataset represents in-situ bathymetry data collected in shallow waters of the Mexican Caribbean, from Cabo Catoche to Xcalak. The data were collected during seven field campaigns (2010-2016). Bathymetric surveys were carried out using the Garmin GPSmap 541s echo sounder. The information is presented in tables in ASCII format and were used as r...
This dataset (in Excel format) represents in-situ information on the percentage of benthic cover collected at 714 stations. Seven field campaigns were conducted (2010-2016), in shallow waters (up to 25 m depth) along the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, from Cabo Catoche to Xcalak, as part of the Mesoamerican Reef System. The biotopes of r...
This collection integrates data from the project "Spatial distribution of benthic habitats in shallow water marine ecosystems of the Mexican Caribbean using WorldView-2 (ArrecifeSAM) satellite images (2010-2018)". The study area covers the shallow waters of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, from Cabo Catoche to Xcalak, as part of the Mesoamerican Re...
Fortalecer el sistema de monitoreo marino para el apoyo de la toma de decisiones y la aplicación de las políticas públicas para los mares mexicanos, la pesca sustentable y la conectividad ecológica y el manejo integrado del paisaje marino.
In the Mexican Caribbean, 15 marine protected areas (MPAs) have been established for managing and protecting marine ecosystems. These MPAs receive high anthropogenic pressure from coastal development, tourism, and fishing, all in synergy with climate change. To contribute to the MPAs' effectiveness, it is necessary to provide a long-term observatio...
Los tiburones y las rayas tienen un papel esencial como depredadores tope y media- nos, respectivamente, en los ecosistemas marinos que habitan, y ocupan los últimos eslabones de la cadena trófica (Heithaus et al., 2008); desempeñan funciones de control sobre poblaciones de numerosas especies marinas (Myers et al., 2007), con lo que contribuyen a m...
En esta obra se integran y proponen protocolos de monitoreo de la biodiversidad marina en áreas naturales protegidas del Caribe mexicano, como parte de un programa de estudio con enfoque integrador que permite extender su implementación a las áreas marinas protegidas de la región del Gran Caribe. La aplicación de las metodologías descritas permite...
Los tiburones y las rayas tienen un papel esencial como depredadores tope y media- nos, respectivamente, en los ecosistemas marinos que habitan, y ocupan los últimos eslabones de la cadena trófica (Heithaus et al., 2008); desempeñan funciones de control sobre poblaciones de numerosas especies marinas (Myers et al., 2007), con lo que contribuyen a m...
Marine protected areas have been established as essential components for managing and protecting coral reefs to mitigate natural and anthropogenic stressors. One noteworthy example within the Mexican Caribbean is the Arrecife de Puerto Morelos National Park (APMNP), where several studies on the coral communities have been carried out since 2006. In...
