This answer refers to coral reefs that display higher coral cover plus the continued dominance of the original species that dominated or were well represented in the past of the reefs. E.g. Acropora palmata in reef crests, and Orbicellas, Montastraeas, Agaricias, etc. and thus were not substituted for oportunistic species as Millepora complanata, Siderastrea siderea, Porites astreoides, for example.
Hi Pedro.
I really don't know which one could be...But I invite you to read (here) Elisa Bayraktarov publications (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elisa_Bayraktarov/publications). For example
Multi-scale processes drive benthic community structure in upwelling-affected coral reefs
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272157281_Multi-scale_processes_drive_benthic_community_structure_in_upwelling-affected_coral_reefs
Article Multi-scale processes drive benthic community structure in u...
Thank you very much, Rebeca. I have failures trying to download papers directly from RG, I wonder why. I would appreciate very much that you could send the recommended paper directly to [email protected]. Thank you.
Best wishes,
Pedro
Dear Pedro,
Perhaps you can also find this publication relevant to your question :o)
Cinner, J. E., Huchery, C., MacNeil, M. A., Graham, N. A., McClanahan, T. R., Maina, J., ... & Allison, E. H. (2016). Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs. Nature.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303980691_Bright_spots_among_the_world's_coral_reefs
Article Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs
I would say that Cuba, some islands off Belize and Honduras, and maybe in the northeastern Caribbean
Muchísimas gracias, Sonia y Héctor por tan valiosa información.
Saludos cordiales,
Pedro
Muchísimas gracias, Sonia por tan valiosa información.
Saludos cordiales,
Pedro
Off the bat I'd guess Cuba (particularly Archipielago Jardines de la Reina), southern Mexico / Belize, and Honduras (particularly Cordelia Bank).
RE: "...the original species that dominated or were well represented in the past of the reefs"....I think a living reef of opportunistic coral species is still better than a dead one of past original coral species.
Don Pedro, yo diria que Bonaire esta alli en el top 5%... las acroporas las perdimos en todos lados, pero en el sur se mantienen las montastreas y las orbicelas. Un abrazo,
Iliana.
Banco Cordelia, south of Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras, is an example of a Caribbean resilient reef.
Look at these links for Varadero Reef in Colombia:
Coral Reefs: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00338-014-1246-y
Science: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6282/129
Thanks, Carlos. Its is a really impressive and well preserved reef.
Yes it is. That's what I call Resilient. Some of my colleagues and I are trying to prevent dredging plans on this place for a new navigation channel. Some more info (in Spanish) on an important national magazine: http://www.semana.com/nacion/multimedia/los-sobrevivientes-de-varadero/480331
They are indeed gorgeous, Carlos and make I hope you can win the battle against dredging..Two surprising areas that appear to be bouncing back are the Pearl Cays (left for dead 20 years ago when I first dove them) and the reefs on Big Corn Island, Nicaragua (over 25% average cover from our Caricomp work)... Both are MPAs (albeit paper ones) but will follow up next year as part of developing a new strategy and action plan for those two, along with Seaflower (and hopefully can work in a politically free underwater environment that transcends the tensions between Nic and Colombia about ownership)
Carlos, it occurred to me that it might be fruitful to conduct a 'shadow' and alternative Impact Assessment of the dredging project in an objective manner and highlight the costs (environmental, social and economic ) of different alternatives.. I can highly recommend the Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix (RIAM) developed at Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) ... There is a freeware, so don't buy it from DHI.. We nicely diverted the destruction of a major Ramsar site in Nicaragua... There is a very good example for a dredging project in Jakarta Bay that DHI used and it might be useful.. And here is a Finnish comparative study ....http://fulltext.study/download/1053235.pdf
The nice thing is that it converts qualitative and quantitative data to color bands, something that is much easier for a decision maker to understand..
Saludos,Joe
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