Ecological monitoring in reefs of the Gulf of California and Pacific Ocean. In dataMares: Ecological Monitoring

The ecological data of fish and invertebrates were collected under the leadership of the Centro para la Biodiversidad Marina y la Conservación, A.C. (CBMC) as part of Gulf of California Marine Program's long-term ecological monitoring program. This effort includes researchers and students from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur in La Paz, BCS. This monitoring program has been implemented since 1998, making it the longest-running monitoring effort in the Gulf of California. The data included in this data base was collected in the Bahía de los Ángeles (2008, 2009, 2010, 2016), the Región de las Grandes Islas (2008, 2009, 2010 and 2016) in Baja California; Santa Rosalia (2009, 2010, 2016, 2021, 2022), San Basilio (2019, 2021-2022), Loreto (1998-2019, 2021-2022), El Corredor (2013-2019), La Paz (1998-2019,2022), La Ventana (2013-2018), Cabo Pulmo (1999, 2009-2022), and Cabo San Lucas (1998-2000, 2009-2019, 2021-2022) in Baja California Sur; Islas Marías (2010, 2018), Bahia Banderas (2013), Nayarit; Revillagigedo (2006, 2016, 2017,2021), Colima; Ixtapa Zihuatanejo (2017), Guerrero; Huatulco (2016), Oaxaca. There are 216 species of fish and 244 species of invertebrates included in this inventory.