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2024
May 2, 2024
AUTHORS: Fabio Favoretto, Octavio Aburto‐Oropeza
May 2, 2024
AUTHORS: Philine zu Ermgassen, Thomas A Worthington, Jonathan R Gair, Emma E Garnett, Nibedita Mukherjee, Kate Longley-Wood, Ivan Nagelkerken, Katya Abrantes, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Alejandro Acosta, Ana RdR Araujo, Ronald Baker, Adam Barnett, Christine M Beitl, Rayna Benzeev, Justin Brookes, Gustavo A Castellanos-Galindo, Ving Ching Chong, Rod M Connolly, Marilia Cunha-Lignon, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Karen Diele, Patrick G Dwyer, Daniel A Friess, Thomas Grove, M Enamul Hoq, Chantal Huijbers, Neil Hutchinson, Andrew F Johnson, Ross Johnson, Jon Knight, Uwe Krumme, Baraka Kuguru, Shing Yip Lee, Aaron Savio Lobo, Blandina R Lugendo, Jan-Olaf Meynecke, Cosmas Nzaka Munga, Andrew D Olds, Cara L Parrett, Borja G Reguero, Patrik Ronnback, Anna Safryghin, Marcus Sheaves, Matthew D Taylor, Jocemar Tomasino Mendonca, Nathan Waltham, Matthias Wolff, Mark D Spalding
February 7, 2024
AUTHORS: Octavio Aburto‐Oropeza, Fabio Favoretto
2023
A Deeper Dive into the Blue Economy: The Role of the Diving Sector in Conservation and Sustainable Development Goals
September 7 2023
AUTHORS: Matthew James Forrest, Fabio Favoretto, Zahidah A Nisa, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
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Otoliths of marine fishes record evidence of low oxygen, temperature and pH conditions of deep Oxygen Minimum Zones
January 1 2023
AUTHORS: Leticia Maria Cavole, Karin E Limburg, Natalya D Gallo, Anne Gro Vea Salvanes, Arturo Ramírez-Valdez, Lisa A Levin, Octavio Aburto Oropeza, Andreas Hertwig, Ming-Chang Liu, Kevin D McKeegan
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Global economic impact of scuba dive tourism
March 15 2023
AUTHORS: Anna Schuhbauer, Fabio Favoretto, Terrance Wang, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Enric Sala, Katherine Millage, Reniel Cabral, U Rashid Sumaila, Serena Lucrezi, Astrid Hsu, Mohammad Nasir Tighsazzadeh, Marisol Plascencia de la Cruz, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor
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Critical Habitats and Biodiversity: Inventory, Thresholds and Governance
May 25 2023
AUTHORS: Alex D Rogers, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Ward Appeltans, Jorge Assis, Lisa T Ballance, Philippe Cury, Carlos Duarte, Fabio Favoretto, Joy Kumagai, Catherine Lovelock, Patricia Miloslavich, Aidin Niamir, David Obura, Bethan C O’Leary, Gabriel Reygondeau, Callum Roberts, Yvonne Sadovy, Tracey Sutton, Derek Tittensor, Enriqueta Velarde
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The largest fully protected marine area in North America does not harm industrial fishing
May 31 2023
AUTHORS: Fabio Favoretto, Catalina López-Sagástegui, Enric Sala, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
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Combining otolith chemistry and genetics to infer the population structure of yellow snapper Lutjanus argentiventris
October 2023
AUTHORS: Leticia Maria Cavole, Adrian Munguia‐Vega, Jessica A Miller, Pelayo Salinas‐de‐León, Jose R Marin Jarrin, Andrew Frederick Johnson, Etienne Rastoin‐Laplane, Alfredo Giron‐Nava, Octavio Aburto‐Oropeza
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Integrating climate adaptation and transboundary management: Guidelines for designing climate-smart marine protected areas
November 17 2023
AUTHORS: Nur Arafeh-Dalmau, Adrian Munguia-Vega, Fiorenza Micheli, Ainoa Vilalta-Navas, Juan Carlos Villasenor-Derbez, Magdalena Precoma-de la Mora, David S Schoeman, Alfonso Medellín-Ortíz, Kyle C Cavanaugh, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki, Theresa LU Burnham, Christopher J Knight, C Brock Woodson, Marina Abas, Alicia Abadía-Cardoso, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Michael W Esgro, Noemi Espinosa-Andrade, Rodrigo Beas-Luna, Nirari Cardenas, Mark H Carr, Katherine E Dale, Frida Cisneros-Soberanis, Ana Laura Flores-Morales, Stuart Fulton, Emiliano García-Rodríguez, Alfredo Giron-Nava, Mary G Gleason, Alison L Green, Arturo Hernández-Velasco, Beatriz Ibarra-Macías, Andrew F Johnson, Julio Lorda, Luis Malpica-Cruz, Gabriela Montaño-Moctezuma, Carolina Olguín-Jacobson, Alejandro Parés-Sierra, Peter T Raimondi, Georgina Ramírez-Ortiz, Arturo Ramírez-Valdez, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla, Emily Saarman, Luz Erandi Saldaña-Ruiz, Alexandra Smith, Cecilia Soldatini, Alvin Suárez, Guillermo Torres-Moye, Mariana Walther, Elizabeth Burke Watson, Sara Worden, Hugh P Possingham
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2022
Discovering marine biodiversity in the 21st century
November 2022
AUTHORS: Alex D Rogers, Ward Appeltans, Jorge Assis, Lisa T Ballance, Philippe Cury, Carlos Duarte, Fabio Favoretto, Lisa A Hynes, Joy A Kumagai, Catherine E Lovelock, Patricia Miloslavich, Aidin Niamir, David Obura, Bethan C O’Leary, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Gabriel Reygondeau, Callum Roberts, Yvonne Sadovy, Oliver Steeds, Tracey Sutton, Derek P Tittensor, Enriqueta Velarde, Lucy Woodall, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
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Community structure and biomass of larval euphausiids and postlarval mysids in relation to anomalous warming events during a weekly time series (2014–2017) at Cabo Pulmo
November 2022
AUTHORS: Phalom D Ventura-Domínguez, Jaime Gómez-Gutiérrez, Roxana De Silva-Dávila, Eduardo González-Rodríguez, Arturo R Sánchez-Uvera, Ángel A Silveyra-Bustamante, Armando Trasviña-Castro, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Carlos Sánchez
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Baja California Sur mangrove deep peat microbial communities cycle nitrogen but do not affect old carbon pool
August 2022
AUTHORS: MT Costa, E Ezcurra, O Aburto-Oropeza, M Maltz, K Arogyaswamy, J Botthoff, E Aronson
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Physical and environmental drivers of oceanic manta ray Mobula birostris sightings at an aggregation site in Bahía de Banderas, Mexico
August 2022
AUTHORS: Iliana A Fonseca-Ponce, Aldo A Zavala-Jiménez, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Adrián Maldonado-Gasca, Felipe Galván-Magaña, Rogelio González-Armas, Joshua D Stewart
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Warming and marine heatwaves tropicalize rocky reefs communities in the Gulf of California
August 2022
AUTHORS: Fabio Favoretto, Carlos Sánchez, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
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Overfishing Increases the Carbon Footprint of Seafood Production From Small-Scale Fisheries
July 2022
AUTHORS: Erica M Ferrer, Alfredo Giron-Nava, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
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A scientific synthesis of marine protected areas in the United States: status and recommendations
June 2022
AUTHORS: Sullivan-Stack, Aburto-Oropeza, Brooks, Cabral, Caselle, Chan, Duffy, Dunn, Friedlander, Fulton-Bennett, Gaines, Gerber, Hines, Leslie, Lester, MacCarthy, Maxwell, Mayorga, Mccauley, Micheli, Moffitt, Nickols, Palumbi, Pearsall, Pike, Pikitch, Sancho, Spalding, Suman, Sykora-Bodie, Grorud-Colvert
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Habitat Protection Indexes-new monitoring measures for the conservation of coastal and marine habitats
May 2022
AUTHORS: Joy A Kumagai, Fabio Favoretto, Sara Pruckner, Alex D Rogers, Lauren V Weatherdon, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Aidin Niamir
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Towards transboundary networks of climate-smart marine reserves in the Southern California Bight
January 2022
AUTHORS: Arafeh-Dalmau, Munguia-Vega, Micheli, Vilalta-Navas, Villasenor-Derbez, Précoma-de la Mora, Schoeman, Medellin-Ortiz, Cavanaugh, Sosa-Nishizaki, Burnham, Knight, Brock Woodson, Abas, Abadia-Cardoso, Aburto-Oropeza, Esgro, Espinosa-Andrade, Beas-Luna, Cardenas, Carr, Dale, Cisneros-Soberanis, Flores-Morales, Fulton, Garcia-Rodriguez, Giron-Nava, Gleason, Green, Hernandez-Velasco, Ibarra-Macías, Johnson, Lorda, Malpica-Cruz, Montaño-Moctezuma, Olguin-Jacobson, Pares-Sierra, Raimondi, Ramirez-Ortiz, Ramirez-Valdez, Reyes-Bonilla, Saarman, Saldana-Ruiz, Smith, Soldatini, Suarez, Torres-Moye, Walther, Watson, Worden, Possingham
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2021
Relict inland mangrove ecosystem reveals Last Interglacial sea levels
October 2021
AUTHORS: Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Carlos Manuel Burelo-Ramos, Exequiel Ezcurra, Paula Ezcurra, Claudia L Henriquez, Sula E Vanderplank, Felipe Zapata
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Relationships among somatic growth, climate, and fisheries production in an overexploited marine fish from the Gulf of California, Mexico
September 2021
AUTHORS: Brad E Erisman, Erin M Reed, Martha J Román, Ismael Mascareñas‐Osorio, Peter van der Sleen, Catalina López‐Sagástegui, Octavio Aburto‐Oropeza, Kirsten Rowell, Bryan A Black
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Sustainable fisheries are essential but not enough to ensure well‐being for the world’s fishers
July 2021
AUTHORS: Alfredo Giron‐Nava, Vicky WY Lam, Octavio Aburto‐Oropeza, William WL Cheung, Benjamin S Halpern, U Rashid Sumaila, Andrés M Cisneros‐Montemayor
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Mexican Small‐Scale Fisheries Reveal New Insights into Low‐Carbon Seafood and “Climate‐Friendly” Fisheries Management
June 2021
AUTHORS: Erica M Ferrer, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Victoria Jiménez-Esquivel, Juan José Cota-Nieto, Ismael Mascareñas-Osorio, Catalina López-Sagástegui
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Diving tourism in Mexico – Economic and conservation importance
January 2021
AUTHORS: Arcos-Aguilar, R., Favoretto, F., Kumagai, J. A., Jiménez-Esquivel, V., Martínez-Cruz, A. L., Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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Long-term changes in population dynamics and life history contribute to explain the resilience of a stock of Micropogonias furnieri (Sciaenidae, Teleostei) in the SW Atlantic
January 2021
AUTHORS: Haimovicia, M., Cavole, L. M., Cope, J. M., Cardoso, L. G.
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Biological inventory and latitudinal gradient of the rocky and reef associated fish along the southern Mexican Pacific
January 2021
AUTHORS: Valencia-Méndez, O., Rodríguez-Zaragoza, F.A., Palacios-Salgado, D., Ramírez-Valdez, A., López-Pérez, A.
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Conservation bubbles: the history and future of the industry DIVING IN MEXICO
January 2021
AUTHORS: Hsu, A.J., Arcos, R., Favoretto, F., Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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2020
Driven by Drones: Improving Mangrove Extent Maps Using High-Resolution Remote Sensing
December 2020
AUTHORS: Hsu, A.J., Kumagai, J., Favoretto, F., Dorian, J., Guerrero Martinez, B., Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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Being Isolated and Protected Is Better Than Just Being Isolated: A Case Study From the Alacranes Reef, Mexico
November 2020
AUTHORS: Favoretto, F., Mascareñas-Osorio, I., León-Deniz, L., González-Salas, C., Pérez-España, H., Rivera-Higueras, M., Ruiz-Zárate, M-Á., Vega-Zepeda, A., Villegas-Hernández, H., Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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Participatory research to understand spatio-temporal dynamics of small-scale fleets: The C. bellicosus fishery in Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico
October 2020
AUTHORS: Méndez-Espinoza, D., Ojeda-Ruiz, M. A., Marín-Monroy, E. A., Jiménez-Esquivel, V., Cota-Nieto, J. J.
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Introducing the Mangrove Microbiome Initiative: Identifying Microbial Research Priorities and Approaches To Better Understand, Protect, and Rehabilitate Mangrove Ecosystems
October 2020
AUTHORS: Allard, S. M., Costa, M. T., Bulseco, A. N., Helfer, V., Wilkins, L. G. E., Hassenrück, C., Zengler, K., Zimmer, M., Erazo, N., Mazza Rodrigues, J. L., Duke, N., Melo, V. M. M., Vanwonterghem, I., Junca, H., Makonde, H. M., Jiménez, D. J., Tavares, T. C. L., Fusi, M., Daffonchio, D., Duarte, C. M., Peixoto, R. S., Rosado, A. S., Gilbert, J. A., Bowman, J.
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Using local ecological knowledge of Fishers to infer the impact of climate variability in Galápagos’ small-scale fisheries
September 2020
AUTHORS: Cavole, L. M., Andrade-Verab, S., Jarrin, J. R. M., Dias, D. F., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Barrágan-Paladines, M. J.
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Copepod species assemblage and carbon biomass during two anomalous warm periods of distinct origin during 2014–2015 in the southern Gulf of California
August 2020
AUTHORS: Beltrán-Castro, J. R., Hernández-Trujillo, S., Gómez-Gutiérrez, J., Trasviña-Castro, A., González-Rodríguez, E., Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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The role of extrinsic variation—cohabiting juvenile fish species exhibit similar otolith elemental signatures
July 2020
AUTHORS: Cavole, L. M., Miller, J. A., Salinas-de-León, P., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Marin Jarrin, J. R., Johnson, A. F.
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Yellow snapper (Lutjanus argentiventris) connectivity in the Southern Gulf of California
July 2020
AUTHORS: Reguera-Rouzaud, N., Díaz-Viloria, N., Sánchez-Velasco, L., Flores-Morales, A. L., Parés-Sierra, A., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Munguía-Vega, A.
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Critical Habitats and Biodiversity: Inventory, Thresholds and Governance
May 2020
AUTHORS: Rogers, A. D., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Appeltans, W., Assis, J., Ballance, L., Cury, P., Duarte, C. Favoretto, F., Kumagai, J., Lovelock, C., Miloslavich, P., Niamir, A., Obura, D., O'Leary, B. C., Reygondeau, G., Roberts, C. M., Sadovy, Y., Sutton, T., Tittensor, D., Velarde, E.
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Circularity in fisheries data weakens real world prediction
April 2020
AUTHORS: Alfredo Giron-Nava, A., Munch, S. B., Johnson, A. F., Deyle, E., James, C. C., Saberski, E., Pao, G. M., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Sugihara, G.
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Prioritizing mangrove conservation across Mexico to facilitate 2020 NDC ambition
April 2020
AUTHORS: Kumagai, J.A., Costa, M.T., Ezcurra, E., Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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Mangrove Ecosystem Detection using Mixed-Resolution Imagery with a Hybrid-Convolutional Neural Network
2020
AUTHORS: Hicks, D., Kastner, R., Schurgers, C., Hsu, A., Aburto, O.
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The “Effort Gap” metric: Assessing Countries’ uneven conservation effort towards habitats and biodiversity protection
2020
AUTHORS: Kumagai, J. A., Favoretto, F., Rogers, A. D., Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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2019
Balancing conservation and utilization in spawning aggregation fisheries: a trade-off analysis of an overexploited marine fish
October 2019
AUTHORS: Erisman B. E., Grüss, A., Mascareñas-Osorio, I., Lícon-González, H., Johnson, A. F., and López-Sagástegui, C.
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Mangroves in the Galapagos: Ecosystem services and their valuation
June 2019
AUTHORS: Tanner, M. K., Moity, N., Costa, M. T., Jarrin, J. R. M., Aburto-Oropeza, O., and Salinas-de-León, P.
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A natural experiment reveals the impact of hydroelectric dams on the estuaries of tropical rivers
March 2019
AUTHORS: Ezcurra, E., Barrios, E., Ezcurra, P., Ezcurra, A., Vanderplank, S., Vidal, O., Villanueva-Almanza, L., and Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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Storage of blue carbon in isolated mangrove forests of the Galapagos’ rocky coast
February 2019
AUTHORS: Costa, M. T., Salinas-de-León, P., and Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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Determinants of reef fish assemblages in tropical Oceanic islands
January 2019
AUTHORS: Quimbayo, J. P., Dias, M. S., Kulbicki, M., Mendes, T. C., Lamb, R. W., Johnson, A. F., Aburto‐Oropeza, O., Alvarado, J. J., Bocos, A. A., EL Ferreira, C., Garcia, E., Luiz, O. J., Mascareñas‐Osorio, I., Pinheiro, H. T., Rodriguez‐Zaragoza, F., Salas, E., Zapata, F. A., and Floeter, S. R.
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2018
2018
Conventional MPAs are not as effective as community co-managed areas in conserving top-down control in the Gulf of California
December 2018
AUTHORS: Ulate, K., Alcoverro, T., Arthur, R., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Sanchez, C., and Huato-Soberanis, L.
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Ecological guidelines for designing networks of marine reserves in the unique biophysical environment of the Gulf of California
December 2018
AUTHORS: Munguia-Vega, A., Green, A. L., Suarez-Castillo, A. N., Espinosa-Romero, M. J., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Cruz-Piñón, G., Danemann, G., Giron-Nava, A., Gonzalez-Cuellar, O., Lasch, C., Mancha-Cisneros, M., Marinone, S. G., Moreno-Báez, M., Morzaria-Luna, H. N., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Torre, J., Turk-Boyer, P., Walther, M., and Weaver, A. H.
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Reproductive Behaviour and Concurrent Sound Production of Gulf grouper Mycteroperca jordani (Epinephelidae) at a Spawning Aggregation Site.
December 2018
AUTHORS: Rowell, T. J., Aburto‐Oropeza, O., Cota‐Nieto, J. J., Steele, M. A., and Erisman, B. E.
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Managing at Maximum Sustainable Yield does not ensure economic well‐being for artisanal fishers.
November 2018
AUTHORS: Giron‐Nava, A., Johnson, A.F., Cisneros‐Montemayor, A.M., and Aburto‐Oropeza, O.
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Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change
September 2018
AUTHORS: Aburto-Oropeza, O., Johnson, A. F., Agha, M., Allen, E. B., Allen, M. F., González, J. A., Moreno, D. M. A., Beas-Luna, R., Butterfield, S., Caetano, G., et. al.
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Nonlinear dynamics and noise in fisheries recruitment: A global meta-analysis
July 2018
AUTHORS: Munch, S. B., Giron‐Nava, A., and Sugihara, G.
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Ecological guidelines for designing a network of marine reserves in the unique biophysical environment of the Gulf of California
July 2018
AUTHORS: Munguia-Vega, A., Green, A. L., Suarez-Castillo, A. N., Espinosa-Romero, M.J., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Cruz-Piñón, G., Danemann, G., Giron-Nava, A., Gonzalez-Cuellar, O., Lasch, C., Mancha-Cisneros, M. M., Marinone, S. G., Moreno-Báez, M., Morzaria-Luna, H., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Torre, J., Turk-Boyer, P., Walther, M., and Weaver, A. H.
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DNA sequencing of fish eggs and larvae reveals high species diversity and seasonal changes in spawning activity in the southeastern Gulf of California
March 2018
AUTHORS: Ahern, A.L.M., Gómez-Gutiérrez, J., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Saldierna-Martínez, R. J., Johnson, A. F., Harada, A. E., Sánchez-Uvera, A. R., Erisman, B., Arvizú, D. I. C., and Burton, R. S.
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The balance between concepts and complexity in ecology
March 2018
AUTHORS: Johnson, A. F., and Lidström, S.
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Participatory management in a small-scale coastal fishery—Punta Abreojos, Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico
February 2018
AUTHORS: Cota-Nieto, J., Erisman, B., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Moreno-Báez, M., Hinojosa-Arango, G., and Johnson, A. F.
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The undervalued contribution of mangrove protection in Mexico to carbon emission targets
January 2018
AUTHORS: Adame, M. F., Brown, C.J., Bejarano, M., Herrera‐Silveira, J.A., Ezcurra, P., Kauffman, J. B., and Birdsey, R.
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Hydroacoustics as a tool to examine the effects of Marine Protected Areas and habitat type on marine fish communities
January 2018
AUTHORS: Egerton, J. P., Johnson, A. F., Turner, J., LeVay, L., Mascareñas-Osorio, I., and Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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2017
2017
Letter to the editor – Environmental Development – comment on Arreguín et al. 2017
December 2017
AUTHORS: Johnson, A. F., Giron-Nava, A., Erisman, B., Sala, E., Velarde, E., Ezcurra, E., and Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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Anisotropic larval connectivity and metapopulation structure driven by directional oceanic currents in a marine fish targeted by small-scale fisheries
November 2017
AUTHORS: Munguia-Vega, A., Marinone, S. G., Paz-Garcia, D. A., Giron-Nava, A., Plomozo-Lugo, T., Gonzalez-Cuellar, O., Weaver, A. H., García-Rodriguez, F. J., and Reyes-Bonilla, H.
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Poor fisheries struggle with U.S. import rule
October 2017
AUTHORS: Johnson, A. F., Caillat, M., Verutes, G. M., Peter, C., Junchompoo, C., Lon, V., Ponnampalam, L. S., Lewison, R. L., and Hines, E. M.
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Trophic overlap in mobulid rays: insights from stable isotope analysis
September 2017
AUTHORS: Stewart, J. D., Rohner, C. A., Araujo, G., Avila, J., Fernando, D., Forsberg, K., Ponzo, A., Rambahiniarison, J. M., Kurle, C. M., and Semmens, B. X.
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Quantitative argument for long-term ecological monitoring
May 2017
AUTHORS: Giron-Nav, A., James, C. C., Johnson, A. F., Dannecker, D., Kolody, B., Lee, A., Nagarkar, M., Pao, G. M., Ye, H., Johns, D. G., and Sugihara, G.
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Mobulid rays feed on euphausiids in the Bohol Sea
May 2017
AUTHORS: Rohner, C. A., Burgess, K. B., Rambahiniarison, J. M., Stewart, J. D., Ponzo, A., and Richardson, A. J.
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Mexico-California Bi-National Initiative of Kelp Forest Ecosystems and Fisheries
April 2017
AUTHORS: Ramírez-Valdez, A., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Dalmau, N. A., Beas-Luna, R., Caselle, J. E., Castorani, M. C. N., Cavanaugh, K., Edwards, M., Hernández-Carmona, G., Johnson, A. F., Leslie, H. M., Montaño-Moctezuma, G., Fiorenza Micheli, Julio Palleiro-Nayar, P. Ed Parnell, Daniel C. Reed, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki, Jorge Torre, Moye, G. T., Zertuche-González, J. A., and Raimondi, P.
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A spatial method to calculate small-scale fisheries effort in data poor scenarios
April 2017
AUTHORS: Johnson, A. F., Moreno-Ba´ez, M., Giron-Nava, A., Corominas, J., Erisman, B., Ezcurra, E., and Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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Endangered Species, Ecosystem Integrity, and Human Livelihoods
March 2017
AUTHORS: Aburto-Oropeza, O., López-Sagástegui, C., Moreno-Báez, M., Mascareñas-Osorio, I., Jiménez-Esquivel, V., Johnson, A. F., and Erisman, B.
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Hydroacoustics for the discovery and quantification of Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) spawning aggregations
January 2017
AUTHORS: Egerton, J. P., Johnson, A. F., Vay, L. L., McCoy, C. M., Semmens, B. X., Heppell, S. A., and Turner, J. R.
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2016
2016
Biological Impacts of the 2013–2015 Warm-Water Anomaly in the Northeast Pacific: Winners, Losers, and the Future
June 2016
AUTHORS: Cavole, L. M., Demko, A. M., Diner, R. E., Giddings, A., Koester, I., Pagniello, C. M. L. S., Paulsen, M. L., Ramirez-Valdez, A., Schwenck, S. M., Yen, N. K., Zill, M. E., and Franks, P. J. S.
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Spatial ecology and conservation of Manta birostris in the Indo-Pacific
May 2016
AUTHORS: Stewart, J.D., Beale, C.S., Fernando, D., Sianipar, A.B., Burton, R.S., Semmens, B.X., and Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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Latitudinal regionalization of epibenthic macroinvertebrate communities on rocky reefs in the Gulf of California
April 2016
AUTHORS: Ulate, K., Sánchez, C., Sánchez-Rodríguez, A., Alonso, D., Aburto-Oropeza, O., and Huato-Soberanis, L.
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Deep-water feeding and behavioral plasticity in Manta birostris revealed by archival tags and submersible observations
March 2016
AUTHORS: Stewart, J. D., Hoyos-Padillac, E. M., Kumli, K. R., and Rubine, R. D.
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Property Rights for Fishing Cooperatives: How (and How Well) Do They Work?
March 2016
AUTHORS: Aburto-Oropeza, O., Leslie, H.M., Mack-Crane, A., Nagavarapu, S., Reddy, S.M., and Sievanen, L.
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Coastal landforms and accumulation of mangrove peat increase carbon sequestration and storage
February 2016
AUTHORS: Ezcurra, P., Ezcurra, E., Garcillán, P.P., Costa, M.T., and Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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2015
2015
Resolving taxonomic uncertainty in vulnerable elasmobranchs: are the Madeira skate (Raja maderensis) and the thornback ray (Raja clavata) distinct species?
December 2015
AUTHORS: Ball, R.E., Serra-Pereira, B., Ellis, J., Genner, M.J., Iglésias, S., Johnson, A.F., Jones, C.S., Leslie, R., Lewis, J., Mariani, S., and Menezes, G.
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Fishes: A Guide to their Diversity - Book Review
December 2015
AUTHORS: Johnson, A. F.
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Small-scale fisheries of lagoon estuarine complexes in Northwest Mexico
October 2015
AUTHORS: Rubio-Cisneros, N.T., Aburto-Oropeza, O., and Ezcurra, E.
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Fish spawning aggregations: where well-placed management actions can yield big benefits for fisheries and conservation
September 2015
AUTHORS: Erisman, B., Heyman, W., Kobara, S., Ezer, T., Pittman, S., Aburto‐Oropeza, O., and Nemeth, R.S.
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Building an Expert-Judgment-Based Model of Mangrove Fisheries
July 2015
AUTHORS: Hutchinson, J., Philipp, D. P., Claussen, J. E., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Carrasquilla-Henao, M., Castellanos-Galindo, G. A., Costa, M. T., Daneshgar, P. D., Hartmann, H. J., Juanes, F., Khan, M. N., Knowles, L., Knudsen, E., Lee, S. Y., Murchie, K. J., Tiedmann, J., Ermgassen, P., and Spalding, M.
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A comparison of fishing activities between two coastal communities within a biosphere reserve in the Upper Gulf of California
April 2015
AUTHORS: Erisman, B., Mascarenas-Osorio, I., López-Sagástegui, C., Moreno-Báez, M., Jiménez-Esquivel, V., and Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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On the conditions of the 2012 cannonball jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris) bloom in Golfo de Santa Clara: a fishery opportunity?
March 2015
AUTHORS: Girón‐Nava, A., López‐Sagástegui, C., and Aburto‐Oropeza, O.
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The nearshore fishes of the Cedros Archipelago (North-Eastern Pacific) and their biographic affinities
January 2015
AUTHORS: Ramirez-Valdez, A., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Palacios-Salgado, D.S., Correa-Sandoval, F., Ramirez-Valdez, A., Carlos Villasenor-Derbez, J., Jose Cota-Nieto, J., Hinojosa-Arango, G., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Dominguez-Guerrero, I., and Hinojosa-Arango, G.
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A framework to assess the health of rocky reefs linking geomorphology, community assemblage, and fish biomass
January 2015
AUTHORS: Aburto-Oropeza, O., Ezcurra, E., Moxley, J., Sánchez-Rodríguez, A., Mascarenas-Osorio, I., Sánchez-Ortiz, C., Erisman, B., and Ricketts, T.
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2014
2014
Effects of population density and body size on disease ecology of the European lobster in a temperate marine conservation zone
December 2014
AUTHORS: Davies, C.E., Johnson, A.F., Wootton, E.C., Greenwood, S.J., Clark, K.F., Vogan, C.L., and Rowley, A.F.
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Effects of bottom trawling on fish foraging and feeding
December 2014
AUTHORS: Johnson, A.F., Gorelli, G., Jenkins, S.R., Hiddink, J.G., and Hinz, H.
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Oceanographic mechanisms that possibly explain dominance of neritic-tropical zooplankton species assemblages around the Islas Marías Archipelago, Mexico
November 2014
AUTHORS: Gómez-Gutiérrez, J., Funes-Rodríguez, R., Arroyo-Ramírez, K., Sánchez-Ortíz, C.A., Beltrán-Castro, J.R., Hernández-Trujillo, S., Palomares-García, R., Aburto-Oropeza, O., and Ezcurra, E.
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A tale of two seas: contrasting patterns of population structure in the small-spotted catshark across Europe
November 2014
AUTHORS: Gubili, C., Sims, D.W., Veríssimo, A., Domenici, P., Ellis, J., Grigoriou, P., Johnson, A.F., McHugh, M., Neat, F., Satta, A., Scarcella, G., Serra-Pereira, B., Soldo, A., Genner, M. J., and Griffiths, A. M.
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Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework to assess sustainability
August 2014
AUTHORS: Leslie, H.M., Basurto, X., Nenadovic, M., Sievanen, L., Cavanaugh, K.C., Cota-Nieto, J.J., Erisman, B.E., Finkbeiner, E., Hinojosa-Arango, G., Moreno-Báez, M. and Nagavarapu, S., Reddy, S.M.W., Sánchez-Rodríguez, A., Siegel, K., Ulibarria-Valenzuela, J. J., Weaver, A. H., and Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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Asymmetric connectivity of spawning aggregations of a commercially important marine fish using a multidisciplinary approach
July 2014
AUTHORS: Munguia-Vega, A., Jackson, A., Marinone, S.G., Erisman, B., Moreno-Baez, M., Girón-Nava, A., Pfister, T., Aburto-Oropeza, O., and Torre, J.
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Residency and seasonal movements in Lutjanus argentiventris and Mycteroperca rosacea at Los Islotes Reserve, Gulf of California
March 2014
AUTHORS: TinHan, T., Erisman, B., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Weaver, A., Vázquez-Arce, D., and Lowe, C. G.
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Transnational Ecosystem Services: The Potential of Habitat Conservation for Waterfowl Through Recreational Hunting Activities
February 2014
AUTHORS: Rubio-Cisneros, N.T., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Murray, J., Gonzalez-Abraham, C.E., Jackson, J., and Ezcurra, E.
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2013
2013
Evidence of market-driven size-selective fishing and the mediating effects of biological and institutional factors
June 2013
AUTHORS: Reddy, S.M., Wentz, A., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Maxey, M., Nagavarapu, S., and Leslie, H. M.
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Marine conservation planning in practice: lessons learned from the Gulf of California
June 2013
AUTHORS: Álvarez‐Romero, J.G., Pressey, R.L., Ban, N.C., Torre‐Cosío, J., and Aburto‐Oropeza, O.
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2012
2012
Long-term effectiveness of a multi-use marine protected area on reef fish assemblages and fisheries landings
December 2012
AUTHORS: Rife, A.N., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Hastings, P.A., Erisman, B., Ballantyne, F., Wielgus, J., Sala, E., and Gerber, L.
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When good intentions are not enough … Insights on networks of “paper park” marine protected areas
October 2012
AUTHORS: Rife, A. N., Erisman, B., Sanchez, A., and Aburto‐Oropeza, O.
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The shallow-water fish assemblage of Isla del Coco National Park, Costa Rica: structure and patterns in an isolated, predator-dominated ecosystem
September 2012
AUTHORS: Friedlander, A.M., Zgliczynski, B.J., Ballesteros, E., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Bolaños, A., and Sala, E.
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of a fish spawning aggregation and its fishery in the Gulf of California
February 2012
AUTHORS: Erisman, B., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Gonzalez-Abraham, C., Mascareñas-Osorio, I., Moreno-Báez, M., and Hastings, P.A.
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Linking temperate demersal fish species to habitat: scales, patterns and future directions
February 2012
AUTHORS: Johnson, A.F., Jenkins, S.R., Hiddink, J.G., and Hinz, H.
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2011
2011
Effect of prey abundance and size on the distribution of demersal fishes
September 2011
AUTHORS: Johnson, A.F., Valls, M., Moranta, J., Jenkins, S.R., Hiddink, J.G., and Hinz, H.
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List of coastal fishes of Islas Marías archipelago, Mexico, with comments on taxonomic composition, biogeography, and abundance
June 2011
AUTHORS: Erisman, B.E., Galland, G.R., Mascarenas, I., Moxley, J., Walker, H.J., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Hastings, P.A., and Ezcurra, E.
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Could our fisheries be more productive? Indirect negative effects of bottom trawl fisheries on fish condition
June 2011
AUTHORS: Hiddink, J.G., Johnson, A.F., Kingham, R., and Hinz, H.
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Checklist of conspicuous reef reef fishes of the Bahía de Los Angeles region, Baja California Norte, Mexico, with comments on abundance and ecological biogeography.
May 2011
AUTHORS: Mascarenas-Osorio, I., Erisman, B., Moxley, J., Balart, E.F., and Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes
April 2011
AUTHORS: Mora, C., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Bocos, A.A., Ayotte, P.M., Banks, S., Bauman, A.G., Beger, M., Bessudo, S., Booth, D.J., Brokovich, E., and Brooks, A.
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2010
2010
Irregular schooling behavior and abandonment of mimicry by the Sabertooth Blenny (Blenniidae) in Cabo Pulmo National Park, Gulf of California, Mexico
November 2010
AUTHORS: Galland, G.R., Aburto-Oropeza, O., and Hastings, P.A.
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Spatial structure of commercial marine fisheries in Northwest Mexico
October 2010
AUTHORS: Erisman, B. E., Paredes, G. A., Plomozo-Lugo, T., Cota-Nieto, J. J., Hastings, P. A., and Aburto-Oropeza, O.
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Levels of connectivity between longnose skate (Dipturus oxyrinchus) in the Mediterranean Sea and the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean
September 2010
AUTHORS: Griffiths, A.M., Sims, D.W., Johnson, A., Lynghammar, A., McHugh, M., Bakken, T., and Genner, M.J.
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Seasonal, annual, and long-term trends in commercial fisheries for aggregating reef fishes in the Gulf of California, Mexico
August 2010
AUTHORS: Erisman, B., Mascarenas, I., Paredes, G., de Mitcheson, Y.S., Aburto-Oropeza, O., and Hastings, P.
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Climatic influence on reef fish recruitment and fisheries
July 2010
AUTHORS: Aburto-Oropeza, O., Paredes, G., Mascareñas-Osorio, I., and Sala, E.
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2009
2009
Recruitment and ontogenetic habitat shifts of the yellow snapper (Lutjanus argentiventris) in the Gulf of California
July 2009
AUTHORS: Aburto-Oropeza, O., Dominguez-Guerrero, I., Cota-Nieto, J., and Plomozo-Lugo, T.
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2008
2008
Functional diversity predicts overyielding effect of species combination on primary productivity
July 2008
AUTHORS: Griffin, J.N., Méndez, V., Johnson, A.F., Jenkins, S.R., and Foggo, A.
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Mangroves in the Gulf of California increase fishery yields
May 2008
AUTHORS: Aburto-Oropeza, O., Ezcurra, E., Danemann, G., Valdez, V., Murray, J., and Sala, E.
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Commercially imported serranid fishes from the Gulf of California: ecology, fisheries, and conservation
March 2008
AUTHORS: Aburto-Oropeza, O., Erisman, B., Valdez-Ornelas, V., and Danemann, G.
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A probable spawning aggregation of the leather bass Dermatolepis dermatolepis (Boulenger) in the Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico
March 2008
AUTHORS: Aburto‐Oropeza, O., and Hull, P.M.
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2007
2007
Predictability of reef fish recruitment in a highly variable nursery habitat
September 2007
AUTHORS: Aburto-Oropeza, O., Sala, E., Paredes, G., Mendoza, A., and Ballesteros, E.
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2006
A marine reserve network for the Gulf of California: The next step in conserving 'the world's aquarium'
November 2006
AUTHORS: Aburto-Oropeza, O., and Sagástegui, C. L.
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2006
Threatened Fishes of the World: Holacanthus passer Valenciennes, 1846 (Pomacanthidae)
March 2006
AUTHORS: Sánchez-Alcántara, I., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Balart, E.F., Cupul-Magaña, A.L., Reyes-Bonilla, H., and Sánchez-Ortiz, C.
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2004
2004
Fishing Down Coastal Food Webs in the Gulf of California
March 2004
AUTHORS: Sala, E., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Reza, M., Paredes, G., and López-Lemus, L. G.
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2003
2003
Spawning aggregations and reproductive behavior of reef fishes in the Gulf of California
January 2003
AUTHORS: Sala, E., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Paredes, G., and Thompson, G.
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2002
A General Model for Designing Networks of Marine Reserves
December 2002
AUTHORS: Sala, E., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Paredes, G., Parra, I., Barrera, J.C., and Dayton, P.K.
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2002
2001
Community Structure of Reef Fish in Several Habitats of a Rocky Reef in the Gulf of California
April 2001
AUTHORS: Aburto‐Oropeza, O., and Balart, E. F.
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2001
1999
1999
Feeding Behavior, Habitat Use, and Abundance of the Angelfish Holacanthus passer (Pomacanthidae) in the Southern Sea of Cortés
July 1999
AUTHORS: Aburto-Oropeza, O., Sala, E., and Sánchez-Ortiz, C
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Observations of a Probable Hybrid Angelfish of the Genus Holacanthus from the Sea of Cortez, Mexico
April 1999
AUTHORS: Sala, E., Aburto-Oropeza, O., and Arreola-Robles, J.L.
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