Juan Manuel Díaz

TL;DR: The state of knowledge of marine biodiversity is analyzed based on the geographic distribution of georeferenced species records and regional taxonomic lists and it is found that the currently accepted classification of marine ecoregions of the Caribbean did not apply for the benthic distributions of five relatively well known taxonomic groups.

TL;DR: This paper analyzes the status of knowledge of marine biodiversity in five subregions along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America: the Tropical East Pacific, the Humboldt Current, the Patagonian Shelf, the Brazilian Shelves, and the Tropical West Atlantic, and it provides a review of ecosystem threats and regional marine conservation strategies.

TL;DR: This work represents the first effort to sample gastropod biodiversity on rocky shores using a standardized protocol across a wide scale and will generate more work to build global databases allowing for large-scale diversity comparisons of rocky intertidal assemblages.

TL;DR: In this paper, two complementary length-based approaches were used to assess the status of three main target species in the small-scale fisheries of Eastern Pacific countries: Spotted rose snapper Lutjanus guttatus, Pacific sierra Scomberomorus sierra, and Pacific bearded Brotula clarkae, using length-frequency catch data (LFCD) from the Colombian Pacific coast.