During the last 20 years, SAM has developed a multiplicity of hypothesis-driven conservation and restoration projects. Being home to the oldest Community-based coral aquaculture and reef rehabilitation program in the Caribbean, we aim to develop a variety of scientific publications that highlight our commitment towards the conservatiion of our marine resources. Most publica­tions are freely available on our website.

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2022

Bayraktarov, Elisa; Hernández-Delgado, Edwin A.; Pizarro, Valeria; Montoya-Maya, Phanor H; Ruiz-Diaz, Claudia Patricia; Phinn, Stuart R; Roelfsema, Chris; Frías-Torres, Sarah

Joining global efforts to halt coral reef decline: a call for more diversity, equity, and inclusion at international scientific meetings Journal Article

In: Reef Ecounter, vol. 37, iss. 1, pp. 28-35, 2022, ISSN: 0225-27987.

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2018

Toledo-Hernández, Carlos; Ruiz-Diaz, Claudia P.; Hernández-Delgado, Edwin A.; Suleimán-Ramos, Samuel E.

Devastation of 15-year old Community-based Coral Farming and Reef-restoration Sites in Puerto Rico by Major Hurricanes Irma and María Journal Article

In: Caribbean Naturalist, no. 53, pp. 1-6, 2018, ISBN: 2326-7119.

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Mercado-Molina, Alex E.; Rivera-Irizarry, Fabiola; Fonseca-Miranda, Jaime; Bruno-Laureano, Yesenia

Growth facilitation by the octocoral Gorgonia ventalina explains spatial difference in the population size structure of the common demosponge Ircinia felix Journal Article

In: Marine Biology Research, vol. 14, iss. 1, pp. 41 - 51, 2018.

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2016

Ruiz-Diaz, Claudia Patricia; Toledo-Hernández, Carlos; Mercado-Molina, Alex E.; Sabat, Alberto M.

Scraping and extirpating: two strategies to induce recovery of diseased Gorgonia ventalina sea fans Journal Article

In: Marine Ecology, vol. 37, iss. 2, pp. 336-343, 2016, ISSN: 0173-9565.

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Ruiz-Diaz​, Claudia P.; Toledo-Hernandez, Carlos; Mercado-Molina, Alex E.; Pérez, María-Eglée; Sabat, Alberto M.

The role of coral colony health state in the recovery of lesions Journal Article

In: Peer J, pp. 1-13, 2016.

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2014

Díaz-Ortega, Geraldine; Hernández-Delgado, Edwin A.

Unsustainable Land-Based Source Pollution in a Climate of Change: A Roadblock to the Conservation and Recovery of Elkhorn Coral Acropora palmata (Lamarck 1816) Journal Article

In: Natural Resources, vol. 5, pp. 561-581, 2014.

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