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PUERTO RICO<br />

Coauthors: Richard Appeldoorn, Roy<br />

Armstrong, David Ballantine, Chris Caldow,<br />

Sara Rivero Calle, Christopher F.G. Jeffrey,<br />

Héctor Ruiz, Ernesto Weil, AGRRA,<br />

CARICOMP <strong>and</strong> NOAA Biogeography Branch<br />

Geographic Information<br />

Coastal Length: 1,087 km<br />

L<strong>and</strong> Area: 9,000 km 2<br />

Maritime Area: 204,942 km 2<br />

Population: 3,940,410<br />

Reef Area: 471 km 2<br />

Number of hurricanes<br />

in the past 20 years: 4<br />

Fig. 26.1 Map of Puerto Rico, codes represent studies listed in Table 26.1. Missing map code(s) due to unavailable coordinates.<br />

Table 26.1 Data sources from<br />

Puerto Rico used in current study.<br />

Map codes represent individual<br />

studies. For exact location of study,<br />

refer to Fig. 26.1; * denotes original<br />

data; for full references, refer to<br />

published literature sources in the<br />

last section.<br />

Map<br />

Code<br />

Contributor Location Time Period Year<br />

Count<br />

<strong>Coral</strong><br />

Diadema<br />

antillarum<br />

Macroalgae<br />

X<br />

1 Acevedo 1989 1 La 1989 1 X<br />

Parguera<br />

2 Antonius & Weiner Vieques 1978 1 X<br />

1982 2<br />

3 Weil, Ernesto;<br />

Garcia, Jorge/<br />

CARICOMP* 3,4<br />

4 NOAA<br />

Biogeography<br />

Branch*<br />

La<br />

Parguera<br />

La<br />

Parguera,<br />

Vieques,<br />

Jobos<br />

Bay<br />

1994-2012 19 X X X<br />

2001-2011 11 X X X X<br />

5 Garrison et al 2005 5 Vieques 1991, 1994, 3 X X<br />

1998<br />

6 AGRRA* Vieques &<br />

Culebra<br />

2003 1 X X X<br />

7 Armstrong, Roy;<br />

Rivero Calle, Sara* 6<br />

Vieques,<br />

Mona<br />

Isl<strong>and</strong>, La<br />

Parguera<br />

2004, 2008 2 X X<br />

Fish<br />

212 STATUS AND TRENDS OF CARIBBEAN CORAL REEFS: 1969-2012

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