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Aldo Croquer

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Dr. Aldo Croquer graduated from Universidad Central De Venezuela in 1998. His PhD is in Biological Sciences and has been a Postdoctoral Fellow 3 times, a Senior Professor at Simon Bolivar University and currently Coral Program Manager of The Nature Conservancy in the Dominican Republic. I am interested in coral reef ecology, benthic ecology and coral biology ecology, including life history traits, coral disease-health dynamics and ecological restoration.

Biodiversity Ecology Ecosystem Science Environmental Sciences Epidemiology Infectious Diseases Marine Biology Microbiology Statistics

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Universidad Simón Bolívar

Universidad Simón Bolivar

Work details

Coral program Manager in the Dominican Republic

Universidad Simón Bolívar

August 2019

Caribbean Division

I lead TNC's conservation, restorarion and monitoring efforts in the Dominican Republic.

Senior professor

Universidad Simón Bolívar

Estudios Ambientales

I am currently on leave permit. I am the director of the Laboratory of Experimental Ecology at Departamento de Estudios Ambientales. Responsible to teaching community ecology (theory and Practice), Experimental Design, Ecology and Evolution of Coral Reefs and other elective courses.

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PeerJ Contributions

May 4, 2020

On the importance of spatial scales on beta diversity of coral assemblages: a study from Venezuelan coral reefs

Emy Miyazawa, Luis M. Montilla, Esteban Alejandro Agudo-Adriani, Alfredo Ascanio, Gloria Mariño-Briceño, Aldo Croquer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9082 PubMed 32411533

April 22, 2020

The use of pseudo-multivariate standard error to improve the sampling design of coral monitoring programs

Luis M. Montilla, Emy Miyazawa, Alfredo Ascanio, María López-Hernández, Gloria Mariño-Briceño, Zlatka Rebolledo-Sánchez, Andreína Rivera, Daniela S. Mancilla, Alejandra Verde, Aldo Cróquer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8429 PubMed 32351778

June 4, 2019

Systematic review and meta-analysis of 50 years of coral disease research visualized through the scope of network theory

Luis M. Montilla, Alfredo Ascanio, Alejandra Verde, Aldo Croquer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7041 PubMed 31198644

July 26, 2016

Tissue mortality by Caribbean ciliate infection and white band disease in three reef-building coral species

Alejandra Verde, Carolina Bastidas, Aldo Croquer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2196 PubMed 27547525

June 23, 2016

Monitoring coastal pollution associated with the largest oil refinery complex of Venezuela

Aldo Croquer, David Bone, Carolina Bastidas, Ruth Ramos, Elia García

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2171 PubMed 27375970

April 4, 2016

Colony geometry and structural complexity of the endangered species Acropora cervicornis partly explains the structure of their associated fish assemblage

Esteban A. Agudo-Adriani, Jose Cappelletto, Francoise Cavada-Blanco, Aldo Croquer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1861 PubMed 27069801

January 28, 2016

Is Acropora palmata recovering? A case study in Los Roques National Park, Venezuela

Aldo Croquer, Francoise Cavada-Blanco, Ainhoa L. Zubillaga, Esteban A. Agudo-Adriani, Michael Sweet

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1539 PubMed 26839742

July 17, 2015 - Version: 1

Is Acropora palmata really coming back? an analysis from Los Roques, Venezuela

Aldo Croquer, Francoise Cavada-Blanco, Ainhoa L. Zubillaga, Esteban Agudo-Adriani

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1247v1

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March 14, 2022

Geomorphically controlled coral distribution in degraded shallow reefs of the Western Caribbean

Alexis Enrique Medina-Valmaseda, Paul Blanchon, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Esmeralda Pérez-Cervantes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12590 PubMed 35310164

February 12, 2020

Lack of recovery of the long-spined sea urchin Diadema antillarum Philippi in Puerto Rico 30 years after the Caribbean-wide mass mortality

Evan Tuohy, Christina Wade, Ernesto Weil

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8428 PubMed 32095327

February 21, 2019

Distribution and status of living colonies of Acropora spp. in the reef crests of a protected marine area of the Caribbean (Jardines de la Reina National Park, Cuba)

Leslie Hernández-Fernández, Roberto González de Zayas, Yunier M. Olivera, Fabián Pina Amargós, Claudia Bustamante López, Lisadys B. Dulce Sotolongo, Fernando Bretos, Tamara Figueredo Martín, Dayli Lladó Cabrera, Francisco Salmón Moret

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6470 PubMed 30809452