Revealing the status of Orbicella: Main reef-builder of Morrocoy National Park and Cuare Wildlife Refuge, Venezuela, Southern Caribbean

• Anaurora Yranzo-Duque ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cursosayranzo@gmail.com

  Affiliations Laboratorio de Ecología de Sistemas Acuáticos, Línea de Investigación Ecosistemas Marino-Costeros, Centro de Ecología y Evolución, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, EDGE of Existence Programme, Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom, Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas, Venezuela

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7430-5868

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• Ana Teresa Herrera-Reveles ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Teresa Herrera-Reveles, Estrella Villamizar, Francoise Cabada-Blanco

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas, Venezuela, Laboratorio de Ecología Humana, Centro de Ecología Aplicada, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Estrella Villamizar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Teresa Herrera-Reveles, Estrella Villamizar, Francoise Cabada-Blanco

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratorio de Ecología de Sistemas Acuáticos, Línea de Investigación Ecosistemas Marino-Costeros, Centro de Ecología y Evolución, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Francoise Cabada-Blanco ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Teresa Herrera-Reveles, Estrella Villamizar, Francoise Cabada-Blanco

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations EDGE of Existence Programme, Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Marine Sciences, School of the Environment and Life Sciences University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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• Jeannette Pérez-Benítez ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Laboratorio de Ecología de Sistemas Acuáticos, Línea de Investigación Ecosistemas Marino-Costeros, Centro de Ecología y Evolución, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Hazael Boadas ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas, Venezuela

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• José G. Rodríguez Quintal ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas, Venezuela, Laboratorio de Biología Marino Costera, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela

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• Carlos Pereira ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Taxonomía y Ecología de Algas y Macrofitas Marinas, Instituto de Biología Experimental, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5850-0775

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• Samuel Narciso ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas, Venezuela, Fundación para la Defensa de la Naturaleza, estado Falcón, Venezuela

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• Freddy A. Bustillos

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Gerencia de Ordenación Pesquera, Instituto Socialista para la Pesca y Acuicultura, Caracas, Venezuela

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