Two decades of skeletal density decline in Pocillopora spp. corals in the Mexican Pacific Ocean: Insight into a tropical eastern Pacific acidification scenario?

• Andrés López-Pérez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrés López-Pérez, Omar Jiménez-Gutiérrez, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alopez@xanum.uam.mx

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Arrecifes y Biodiversidad (ARBIOLAB)/Laboratorio de Ecosistemas Costeros, Departamento de Hidrobiología, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México, México

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1246-7401

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• Omar Jiménez-Gutiérrez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrés López-Pérez, Omar Jiménez-Gutiérrez, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México

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• Héctor Reyes-Bonilla ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrés López-Pérez, Omar Jiménez-Gutiérrez, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Sistemas Arrecifales, Departamento de Biología Marina, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México

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• Rafael A. Cabral-Tena,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Ecología Marina, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California, México

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• Gerardo Leyte-Morales,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Recursos, Universidad del Mar, Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca, México

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• Francisco Medellín-Maldonado,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Arrecifes y Biodiversidad (ARBIOLAB)/Laboratorio de Ecosistemas Costeros, Departamento de Hidrobiología, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México, México

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• Orión Norzagaray-López,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California, México

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• Cecilia Chapa-Balcorta

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Recursos, Universidad del Mar, Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca, México

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