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Selective Bibliography: La Parguera, Puerto Rico

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Aguilar-Perera, J.A. (2004). Coastal habitat connectivity of reef fishes from southwestern Puerto Rico. Department of Marine
     Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Thesis. FULL TEXT

Aiken, K.A. (1991). Some lessons from the Jamaican reef fishery. Caribbean Fisheries Management Council: Puerto Rico
      Conservation Conference. FULL TEXT

Almy Jr., C.C., & Carrion-Torres, C. (n.d.). Shallow-water stony corals of Puerto Rico.(Unpublished manuscript).
      FULL TEXT

Appeldoorn, R.S. (1992). Development of a combined model of growth in weight for juvenile and adult queen conch
     (Strombas Gigas) and its application to the population of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. FULL TEXT

Appeldoorn, R.S. (1993). Reproduction, spawning production ratio, and larval abundance of queen conch off La Parguera,
      Puerto Rico. Caribbean Fisheries Management Council, Puerto Rico. FULL TEXT

Armstrong, R.A. (1981). Changes in a Puerto Rican coral reef from 1936-1979 using aerial photoanalysis.Proceedings of
     the Fifth International Coral Reef Symposium
, 309-315.  FULL TEXT

Ballou, T.G., Dodge, R.E., Hess, S.C., Knap, A.H., & Sleeter, T.D. (1987).  Effects of dispersed and undispersed
      crude oil on mangroves, seagrasses, and corals. FULL TEXT

Bardales, A.T. (1981). Reproductive patterns of three species of octocorals (Families Telestidea, Briareidea, Plexauridea)
      in the vicinity of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. Abstract

Beets, J., Muehlstein, L., Haught, K., & Schmitges, H. (2003). Habitat connectivity in coastal environments: patterns
     and movements of Caribbean coral reef rishes with emphasis on bluestriped grunt, Haemulon Sciurus. Gulf and
     Caribbean Research, 14(2), 29-42. FULL TEXT

Bejarano-Rodriguez, I. (2006). Relationships between reef fish communities, water, and habitat quality on coral reefs.
      Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Thesis. FULL TEXT

Berrios, J.M., Gonzalez-Azar, J.K., & Diaz-Rodriguez, I. (n.d.) Fish population studies of the seagrass beds and coral reefs
      of Cayo Berberia and Cayo Ratones, Ponce, Puerto Rico. FULL TEXT

Boulon Jr., R.H. (1980). Patterns of coral community structure and species diversity on a submerged shelf edge reef off
     southwestern Puerto Rico. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Thesis.      Abstract

Caraballo, D.M. (1988). Fate of induced injuries on the scleractinian corals Acropora Palmata, Montastria Annularis,
     Porites
Astreoides in La Parguera, Puerto Rico. Thesis. Abstract.

Carbery Jr., K.K. (2006). A case study of irgarol contamination in coastal environments. Department of Marine Sciences,
     University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Thesis. FULL TEXT

Caribbean Environmental Network. (1996). Improving training and public awareness on Caribbean coastal tourism.
      FULL TEXT

Caribbean Fishery Management Council. (1993). Fishery management plan for corals and reef associated plants and
     invertebrates for Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. FULL TEXT

Carpenter, R.C. (1985). Sea urchin mass-mortality: effects on reef algal abundance, species composition, and metabolism and
     other coral reef herbivores. Proceedings of the Fifth International Coral Reef Symposium, 53-60. FULL TEXT

Cerveny, K. (2006). Distribution patterns of reef fishes in southwest Puerto Rico, relative to structural habitat, cross-shelf
      location, and ontogenetic stage. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
      Thesis. FULL TEXT

Coulston, M.L., Berey, RW., Dempsey, A.C., & Odum, P. (1987). Assessment of the queen conch (Strombus gigas)
      population and predation studies of hatchery reared juveniles in Salt River Canyon, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
     Proceedings of the 38th Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, 294-306. FULL TEXT

Edmunds P.J., & Gates, R.D. (n.d.). Size-dependent differences in the photophysiology of the reef coral Porites asteroides .

Environmental Quality Board. (1970). An island in transition: Culebra 1970. Puerto Rico Office of the Governor,
      Environmental Quality Board.
FULL TEXT

Esteves-Amador, R.F. (2005). Dispersal of reef fish larvae from known spawning sites in La Parguera. Department of Marine
      Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Thesis. FULL TEXT

Ferrer, L.M. (1985). Spatial patterns of three Caribbean scleractinians: Porites astreoides, Montastrea annularia, and
     Montastrea cavernosa. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Thesis.
     Abstract

Figueroa, R.A. (1986). A comparison of coral reef front zonation patterns between a high and normal sediment input areas.
     Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Thesis. Abstract

Franzisket, L. (1970). The atrophy of hermatypic reef corals maintained in darkness and their subsequent regeneration in light.
     International Review of Hydrobiology, 55(1-12). FULL TEXT

Garcia-Urena, R.D.P. (2005). Dinamica de crecimiento de tres especies de coral en relacion a las propiedades opticas del
     agua. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Thesis. FULL TEXT

Goenaga, C, & Cintron, G. (1979). Inventory of the Puerto Rican coral reefs. Department of Natural Resources, Office of
      Coastal Zone Management
. FULL TEXT

Geonaga, C. (1986). The distribution and growth of Montastrea Annularis (Ellis And Solander) in Puerto Rican inshore
     platform reefs. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Dissertation. Abstract

Glynn, P.W., Almodovar, L.R., & Gonzalez, J.G. (1964). Effects of Hurricane Edith on marine life in La Parguera, Puerto
      Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science, 4(2-3), 335-345. FULL TEXT

Gonzalez-Liboy, J.G. (1979). An examination of the present condition of seagrass meadows in La Parguera, Puerto Rico.
     Department of National Resources Publication, F.4. V.8. FULL TEXT

Hinds, P.A. (1984). Effects of threespot damselfish, Stegastes planifrons, on algae lawn composition. Department of Marine
      Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Thesis. Abstract

Irizarry-Soto, E. (2006). Abundance, composition, and survivorship of juvenile corals in southwestern Puerto Rico, La
      Parguera. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Thesis. FULL TEXT

Jacobsen, T., & Browder, J.A. (1987). The ecological basis of fishery yield of the Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands insular shelf:
      1987 assessment. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS-NCCOS 26. FULL TEXT

Lugo, A. (1978). Los arrefices de coral en Puerto Rico. Unpublished manuscript. FULL TEXT

Lugo-Ascorbe, M.A. (2004). Population status of the black sea urchin Diadema antillarum in La Parguera, Puerto Rico 20
      years after the mass mortality event. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. Thesis.
      FULL TEXT

Matta, J. L. (1981). The effects of Hurricane David on the benthic Macroalgae on a coral reef in La Parguera, Puerto Rico.
      Thesis. FULL TEXT

Mayor, V.V. (2002). Orientation of leatherback turtle hatchlings, Dermochelys Coriacea (Vandelli, 1961), at Sandy Point
      National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Virgin Islands. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Thesis. FULL TEXT

McGehee, A.M. (1991). Distributions of fish species assemblages within and among coral reefs. Department of Marine
     Sciences. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Thesis. Abstract

Morales-Tirado, J.A. (2006). Sexual reporduction in the Caribbean cora genus Mycetophyllia in La Parguera, Puerto Rico.
      Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Thesis. FULL TEXT

Morelock, J.  Status of Coral Reefs, Southwest Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science, Special Publication V. 4 (2001.)
     FULL TEXT

Morelock, J., Capella, J., Garcia, J., & Barretto, M. (2000). Puerto Rico: seas at the millenium.  Department of Marine
     Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. 
Abstract

Mosquera, A.I. (1991). Determinacion de tasas de flujo de nitrogeno organico disuelto desde el sedimento a la columna de
     agua en ambientes costeros de Puerto Rico: una contribucion al presupeusto global de nitrogeno marino. Abstract

Nieves, P.A. (1987). Studies of nitrogen dynamics in marine sediments near La Parguera, Puerto Rico. Department of Marine
      Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Thesis. Abstract

NOAA. (1981). Declaracion de impacto ambiental final y plan de manejo para Santuario Marino Nacional de la Parguera
      propuesto. FULL TEXT

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Restoration Center. (2000).  Fortuna Reef coral reef restoration. FULL TEXT

NOAA National Ocean Service, Biogeography Program. (2003). Benthic habitats of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
     FULL TEXT

Oficina de Educacion y Publicaciones del Departmento de Recursos Naturales. (1985). Los arrecifes de coral. FULL TEXT

Ortiz-Prosper, A.I. (2005). Population dynamics of hurricane-generated fragments of elkhorn coral Acropora palmata.
     Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Thesis. FULL TEXT

Programa de Manejo de la Zona Costanera de Puerto Rico. (2004). Praderas de Thalassia. FULL TEXT

Programa de Manejo de la Zona Costanera de Puerto Rico. (2004). Los arrecifes de coral. FULL TEXT

Ramirez-Martinez, W.R. (1992). Quantitative study on the horizontal variations in patterns of coral community structure and
    species diversity within Enrique Reef in La Parguera. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico,
    Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Thesis. Abstract

Randall, J.E. (1967). Food habits of reef fishes of the West Indies. Studies in Tropical Oceanography, 5, 665-847. (Hawaii
     Institute of Marine Biology and Bishop Museum). FULL TEXT

Rogers, C.S. (1977). The response of a coral reef to sedimentation. University of Florida., Dissertation. Abstract

Ruiz-Torres, H.J. (2004). Morphometric examination of corallite and colony variability in the Caribbean coral Montastrea
    cavernosa.
Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Thesis. FULL TEXT

Scharer, M.T. (2001). A survey of the epibiota of hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys Imbricata) of Mona Island, Puerto
     Rico. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.(2001.) MS Thesis. FULL TEXT

Scharer, M. T. (2004). Mona Channel marine debris removal, Puerto Rico. Final report to amigos de amona, INC.
      FULL TEXT

Soler-Figueroa, B.M. (2006). Comparacion temporal y espacial de factores bioticos y abioticos en la Bahia Bioluminescente
     en La Parguera y Puerto Mosquito en Vieques. Department of Marine Sciences. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez,
     Thesis.  FULL TEXT

Torres, J.L. (1998). Effects of sediment influx on the growth rates of Montastraea Annularis (Ellis and Solander) in
     Southwest, Puerto Rico. Department of Marine Sciences. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Thesis.
     Abstract

Torres-Perez, J.L. (2005). Responses of two species of Caribbean shallow-water branching corals to changes in ultraviolet
     radiation. Department of Marine Sciences. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Thesis. FULL TEXT

Torres-Rosado, Z.A. (1987). Distribution of two mesogastropods, the queen conch, Strombus Gigas Linnaeus, and the
      milk conch, Strombus Costatus Gmelin, in La Parguera, Lajas, Puerto Rico. FULL TEXT

UNEP Caribbean Environmental Network. (2002). Improving training and public awareness on Caribbean coastal tourism.
     FULL TEXT

United States Department of Commerce. (1984). Final environmental impact statement and management plan for the
     proposed La Parguera national marine sanctuary.Washington, D.C.: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
    
FULL TEXT

Vincente, V.P. (1993). Structural changes and vulnerability of coral reef (Cayo Enrique) in La Parguera, Puerto Rico. In
     Global Aspects of Coral Reefs: Health, Hazards, and History, C39-C44. Miami, FL: University of Miami.
     FULL TEXT

Vincente, V.P. (1993). Decline of coral populations in coral reefs: Cayo Enrique, La Parguera, Puerto Rico. Paper presented
      at the 78th Caribbean Fisheries Council Meeting, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. FULL TEXT

Weil, E. (1999). Reproductive biology and ecology of some Caribbean corals. Puerto Rico Sea Grant Report. FULL TEXT

Wiley, J.W., & Vilella, F.J. (2002). Caribbean Islands Ecosystems. U.S. Geological Survey. FULL TEXT

Williams, E.H., & Bunkley-Williams, L. (2003). Bibliography of research publications concerning Jobos Bay, Puerto Rico.
      Caribbean Journal of Science, 6, *pages* FULL TEXT

Winter, A., Appledoorn, R.S., Bruckner, A., Williams Jr., E.H., & Goenaga, C. (1998). Sea surface temperatures and coral
     reef bleaching off La Parguera, Puerto Rico. FULL TEXT

Zapata, G. (1986). Early diagenesis of amino acids in carbonate sediments in La Parguera, Puerto Rico. (1986.) Thesis.
     Abstract


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