Monthly Archives: July 2011

The effect of brine disposal over recipient faunal communities

Desalination plants generate notable quantities of hypersaline brine which potentially affect the biological communities in the receiving area. In conjunction with my colleagues from CIMA- Canarias, an outstanding consulting company from Tenerife, we assessed whether proximity to a brine discharge … Continue reading

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Local vs. regional drivers of variation in reef fishes

An improvement in our efforts to optimize conservation of reef fishes need to necessarily incorporate processes operating at regional scales with processes that shape local reef fish communities at local scales. We have just published a paper where fishes and … Continue reading

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New publication in PLoS ONEĀ”

PLoS ONE, a member of the PLoS family, has recently become the leading open-access journal in biological sciences. Their open-access philosophy guarantees a great dissemination to all researches, which can freely download all papers from the PLoS ONE webpage. Though … Continue reading

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