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Informe Final Datos Monitoría Arrecifes de Coral en Reservas Naturales 2004 : Baseline Characterization and Monitoring of Coral Reef Communities at Isla Desecheo, Rincon, and Mayaguez Bay
This work is part of the US National Coral Reef Monitoring Program sponsored by NOAA and administered by the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) in Puerto Rico. It includes the third monitoring cycle of marine communities associated with the coral reef systems at Puerto Canoas/Puerto Botes in Isla Desecheo and at El Tourmaline Reef in Mayaguez Bay. The report also contains the initial baseline characterizations of marine communities at the Tres Palmas Reef system in Rincón. The Tres Palmas Reef in Rincón is a newly designated Marine Protected Area (MPA) with a “no-take zone”, due to the presence of perhaps the most extensive and “healthy” biotope of Elkhorn Coral (Acropora palmata) in the island. El Tourmaline Reef in outer Mayaguez Bay is a shelf-edge “spur-and-groove” formation which extends across a depth range of 10 – 30 meters and presents one of the most diverse coral communities in the Island. Puerto Canoas and Puerto Botes of Isla Desecheo represent reef systems with the highest live coral cover, fish density and fish species richness of Puerto Rico. The first monitoring cycle of coral reef communities under the US National Coral Reef Monitoring Program in Puerto Rico was held during 2001-02 and included 18 reefs from seven Natural Reserve sites (DNER, 2003).
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