Ecological Status of Essential Fish Habitats Through an Anthropogenic Environmental Stress Gradient in Puerto Rican Coral Reefs.

The status of declining marine fisheries through the wider Caribbean region has been thoroughly documented. However, there is a lack of quantitative data to determine if there is any cause and effect relationship between declining fish populations and declining ecological conditions of essential fish habitats. We have quantitatively documented the ecological conditions of essential fish habitats and fish communities through an anthropogenic...