AUTOR: Arturo Acero P., Jose Julian Taver, Andrea Polanco F. y Nacor Bolaños-Cubillos

TÍTULO:  Fish Biodiversity in Three Northern Islands of the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve (Colombian Caribbean)

NOTAS:  Acero P A, Tavera JJ, Polanco F. A. and Bolaños-Cubillos N (2019) Fish Biodiversity in Three Northern Islands of the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve (Colombian Caribbean).

INICIO: 

The archipelago of San Andres, Providence and Santa Catalina was declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve in the year 2000. With 180,000 km2, the archipelago boasts a variety of ecosystems and relatively high levels of biodiversity within the region. In light of the urgent need to appraise the value of marine biodiversity within the reserve and understand its role in contributing to food security for the resident human population, the Colombian government has organized three annual expeditions to three different northern islands. The dataset presented here summarizes the information on fish biodiversity collected in three of the reserve’s northern islands, namely Roncador, Serrana, and Serranilla during 2015–2017. In order to include all the information about the Colombian northern islands of the archipelago, data from Quitasueño were also added despite is has not been visited yet by this series of annual expeditions.