Dataset of coral reefs monitoring, Puerto Morelos, Mexico, 2019

Data in Brief

Sergio Cerdeira‐Estrada¹  Esmeralda Pérez‐Cervantes²  Rainer Ressl²  Nuria Estrada‐Saldivar²  Raúl Martell‐Dubois³  Lorenzo Álvarez‐Filip³  Hansel Caballero‐Aragón³  Laura Rosique‐de la Cruz³  Susana Perera‐Valderrama³ 

[1] Corresponding author.;Biodiversity and Reef Conservation Laboratory, Academic Unit of Reef Systems, Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Puerto Morelos 77580, Quintana Roo, Mexico;National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Liga Periférico— Insurgentes Sur 4903, Parques del Pedregal, Tlalpan 14010, Mexico City, Mexico;

关键词: Coral reefs;    Biological indicators;    Benthos and fish communities, Mexico;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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 biological indicators of the condition of both benthos and fish communities. In this paper we present tables with data of biological and ecological variables such as: benthos coverage, species composition and abundance of corals, abundance of urchins and coral recruits, bleaching, coral diseases and coral mortality percent, reef relief, and composition and abundance of key commercial and herbivorous fish species. The research article related to these databases was published in the journal Diversity with the title: Puerto Morelos coral reefs, current state and their classification by a scoring system.

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