selected publications

• academic article

  • Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  115:6871-7158. 2108
  • Colonization and succession as drivers of small-scale spatial variability in epibionts on mangrove roots in the Southern Caribbean..  Marine Ecology: Progress Series.  588:15-27. 2018
  • Differences in rocky reef habitats related to human disturbances across a latitudinal gradient.  Marine Environmental Research.  129:291-303. 2017
  • Infaunal organisms inhabiting the calcareous sponge Clathrina sp. nov. (Gray 1867) in southwest Puerto Rico.  Caribbean Journal of Science .  2017
  • Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs. .  Nature .  535:416-419. 2016
  • Scales of spatial variation in tropical benthic assemblages and their ecological relevance: epibionts on Caribbean mangrove roots as a model system.  Marine Ecology: Progress Series.  548:97-110. 2016
  • Sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria, Corallimorpharia, Ceriantharia, Zoanthidea) from marine shallow-water environments in Venezuela: new records and an updated inventory.  Marine Biodiversity Records.  9:1-18. 2016
  • Sediment Dynamics and their Potential Influence on Insular-Slope Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems.  Continental Shelf Research .  129:1-9. 2016
  • Ecology of fouling assemblages associated with mangrove's roots: an artificial substrate for manipulative experiments..  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology .  457:31-40. 2014
  • Large-Scale Spatial Distribution Patterns of Gastropod Assemblages in Rocky Shores.  PLoS ONE .  8. 2013
  • The effects of human land use on flow regime and water chemistry of headwater streams in the highlands of Chiapas.  Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems.  407:1-9. 2013
  • Effects of oil drilling activity on the deep water megabenthos of the Orinoco Fan, Venezuela.  Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom .  92:245-253. 2012
  • The effects of five different defaunation methods on biogeochemical properties of intertidal sediment.  Biogeosciences.  9:1377-1406. 2012
  • Aspects of Benthic Decapod Diversity and Distribution from Rocky Nearshore Habitat at Geographically Widely Dispersed Sites.  PLoS ONE .  6:1-11. 2011
  • Cuantificación de la diversidad de especies incrustantes asociadas a las raíces de Rhizophora mangle L. en el Parque Nacional Laguna de la Restinga.  InterCiencia.  12:923-930. 2011
  • Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes.  PLoS Biology.  9:1-9. 2011
  • Microalgae from the mucus layer of two massive corals: more than sunken plankton.  Marine Biology .  158:2495-2504. 2011

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• conference poster

  • Diadema antillarum grazing effects on algal/benthic cover and diversity in La Parguera Natural Reserve.  53rd ACS Junior Technical Meeting (JTM) and 38th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting (PRISM). 2019