Dataset of coral reefs monitoring, Puerto Morelos, Mexico, 2019
Hansel Caballero‐Aragón,
Susana Perera‐Valderrama,
Sergio Cerdeira‐Estrada,
Raúl Martell‐Dubois,
Laura Rosique‐de la Cruz,
Lorenzo Álvarez‐Filip,
Esmeralda Pérez‐Cervantes,
Nuria Estrada‐Saldivar,
Rainer Ressl
Affiliations
Hansel Caballero‐Aragón
National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Liga Periférico— Insurgentes Sur 4903, Parques del Pedregal, Tlalpan 14010, Mexico City, Mexico
Susana Perera‐Valderrama
National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Liga Periférico— Insurgentes Sur 4903, Parques del Pedregal, Tlalpan 14010, Mexico City, Mexico; Corresponding author.
Sergio Cerdeira‐Estrada
National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Liga Periférico— Insurgentes Sur 4903, Parques del Pedregal, Tlalpan 14010, Mexico City, Mexico
Raúl Martell‐Dubois
National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Liga Periférico— Insurgentes Sur 4903, Parques del Pedregal, Tlalpan 14010, Mexico City, Mexico
Laura Rosique‐de la Cruz
National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Liga Periférico— Insurgentes Sur 4903, Parques del Pedregal, Tlalpan 14010, Mexico City, Mexico
Lorenzo Álvarez‐Filip
Biodiversity and Reef Conservation Laboratory, Academic Unit of Reef Systems, Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Puerto Morelos 77580, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Esmeralda Pérez‐Cervantes
Biodiversity and Reef Conservation Laboratory, Academic Unit of Reef Systems, Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Puerto Morelos 77580, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Nuria Estrada‐Saldivar
Biodiversity and Reef Conservation Laboratory, Academic Unit of Reef Systems, Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Puerto Morelos 77580, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Rainer Ressl
National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Liga Periférico— Insurgentes Sur 4903, Parques del Pedregal, Tlalpan 14010, Mexico City, Mexico
Noticeable within the Mexican Caribbean is the Arrecife de Puerto Morelos National Park (APMNP), a marine protected area established as an essential component for managing and protecting coral reefs. In June 2019, we conducted a survey in eight shallow reef sites of the APMNP with the purpose of applying a coral reef assessment method, based on biological indicators of the condition of both benthos and fish communities. In this paper we present tables with data of biological and ecological variables such as: benthos coverage, species composition and abundance of corals, abundance of urchins and coral recruits, bleaching, coral diseases and coral mortality percent, reef relief, and composition and abundance of key commercial and herbivorous fish species. The research article related to these databases was published in the journal Diversity with the title: Puerto Morelos coral reefs, current state and their classification by a scoring system.
