Natural Resources

Vol.5 No.10(2014), Paper ID 48446, 21 pages

DOI:10.4236/nr.2014.510050

 

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

 

Geraldine Díaz-Ortega, Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado

 

Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation, Coral Reef Research Group, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Current Address: Instituto de Investigación e Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation, Coral Reef Research Group, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Sociedad Ambiente Marino, San Juan, Puerto Rico

 

Copyright © 2014 Geraldine Díaz-Ortega, Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Díaz-Ortega, G. and Hernández-Delgado, E. (2014) Unsustainable Land-Based Source Pollution in a Climate of Change: A Roadblock to the Conservation and Recovery of Elkhorn Coral Acropora palmata (Lamarck 1816). Natural Resources, 5, 561-581. doi: 10.4236/nr.2014.510050.

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