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Héctor Reyes-Bonilla is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Baja California in Mexico and has a research career primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses a range of subfields, including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Molecular Biology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research topics focus significantly on marine environments and ecosystems. Key areas of study include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Héctor Reyes-Bonilla has contributed to various peer-reviewed papers, notable examples are:

  • Integrating eDNA metabarcoding and simultaneous underwater visual surveys to describe complex fish communities in a marine biodiversity hotspot (2021, Molecular Ecology Resources)
  • Integrating climate adaptation and transboundary management: Guidelines for designing climate-smart marine protected areas (2023, One Earth)
  • High physiological function for corals with thermally tolerant, host-adapted symbionts (2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Reduced fish diversity despite increased fish biomass in a Gulf of California Marine Protected Area (2020, PeerJ)
  • Seasonal tendencies of microplastics around coral reefs in selected Marine Protected National Parks of Gulf of California, Mexico (2022, Marine Pollution Bulletin)

The scientist's publications appear frequently in several academic venues, such as:

  • Bulletin of Marine Science
  • Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PeerJ

Reyes-Bonilla is also an author of books published by Universidad Veracruzana and Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur eBooks, with titles covering ecological and conservation topics related to marine environments in Mexico.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Adrián Munguía-Vega, Damien Olivier, Manuel Olán-González, Georgina Ramírez-Ortiz, and Luis E. Calderón-Aguilera, reflecting ongoing interdisciplinary and cooperative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Ecological niche models and species distribution models in marine environments: A literature review and spatial analysis of evidence

    Sara M. Melo-Merino;Héctor Reyes-Bonilla;Andrés Lira-Noriega

  • Different algal symbionts explain the vertical distribution of dominant reef corals in the eastern Pacific

    R. Iglesias-Prieto;V. H. Beltrán;T. C. LaJeunesse;H. Reyes-Bonilla

  • Host-symbiont recombination versus natural selection in the response of coral-dinoflagellate symbioses to environmental disturbance.

    Todd C. LaJeunesse;Robin Smith;Mariana Walther;Jorge Pinzón

  • Coral reefs of the Pacific coast of México

    Héctor Reyes-Bonilla

  • Effects of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the anti-El Niño event (1997–1999) on coral reefs of the western coast of México

    H. Reyes-Bonilla;J. D. Carriquiry;G. E. Leyte-Morales;A. L. Cupul-Magana

  • Community structure of fishes in Cabo Pulmo Reef, Gulf of California

    Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip;Héctor Reyes-Bonilla;Luis E. Calderon-Aguilera

  • Population Density, Distribution and Consumption Rates of Three Corallivores at Cabo Pulmo Reef, Gulf of California, Mexico

    Hector Reyes-Bonilla;Luis Eduardo Calderon-Aguilera

  • Eastern Pacific Coral Reef Provinces, Coral Community Structure and Composition: An Overview

    Peter W. Glynn;Juan J. Alvarado;Stuart Banks;Jorge Cortés

  • Marine extinctions revisited

    Pablo del Monte-Luna;Daniel Lluch-Belda;Elisa Serviere-Zaragoza;Roberto Carmona

  • Integrating eDNA metabarcoding and simultaneous underwater visual surveys to describe complex fish communities in a marine biodiversity hotspot.

    Tania Valdivia-Carrillo;Axayácatl Rocha-Olivares;Héctor Reyes-Bonilla;José Francisco Domínguez-Contreras

  • Environmental forcing of the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico

    Dierk Hebbeln;Claudia Wienberg;Paul Wintersteller;André Freiwald

  • Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: Lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía

    Antonio Villarreal-Cavazos;Héctor Reyes-Bonilla;Benito Bermúdez-Almada;Oscar Arizpe-Covarrubias

  • Systematics and distribution of the echinoderms from bahía de la paz

    F.A. Solis-Marin;H. Reyes-Bonilla;M.D. Herrero-Perezrul;O. Arizpe-Covarrubias

  • Spring “bleaching” among Pocillopora in the Sea of Cortez, Eastern Pacific

    T. C. LaJeunesse;H. Reyes-Bonilla;M. E. Warner

  • Different calcification rates in males and females of the coral Porites panamensis in the Gulf of California

    R. A. Cabral-Tena;H. Reyes-Bonilla;S. Lluch-Cota;D. A. Paz-García

  • Reproduction of the Cortes Geoduck Panopea globosa (Bivalvia: Hiatellidae) and Its Relationship with Temperature and Ocean Productivity

    Luis Eduardo Calderon-Aguilera;Eugenio Alberto Aragón-Noriega;Hector Reyes-Bonilla;Carmen Guadalupe Paniagua-Chavez

  • Designing connected marine reserves in the face of global warming.

    Jorge G. Álvarez‐Romero;Adrián Munguía‐Vega;Maria Beger;Maria Beger;Maria del Mar Mancha‐Cisneros

  • Contrasting clonal structure among Pocillopora (Scleractinia) communities at two environmentally distinct sites in the Gulf of California

    J. H. Pinzón;J. H. Pinzón;H. Reyes-Bonilla;I. B. Baums;T. C. LaJeunesse

  • Hermatypic Corals Associated with Rhodolith Beds in the Gulf of California, Mexico

    H. Reyes-Bonilla;R. Riosmena-Rodriguez;Foster

  • Marine Biodiversity of Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs

    Jorge Cortés;Ian C. Enochs;Jeffrey Sibaja-Cordero;Luis Hernández

  • Ecological guidelines for designing networks of marine reserves in the unique biophysical environment of the Gulf of California

    Adrian Munguia-Vega;Alison L. Green;Alvin N. Suarez-Castillo;Maria Jose Espinosa-Romero

  • Community structure of fishes in Cabo Pulmo Reef, Gulf of

    Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip;Luis E. Calderon-Aguilera;Hector Reyes-Bonilla

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip
Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip National Autonomous University of Mexico
Jorge Cortés
Jorge Cortés University of Costa Rica
Todd C. LaJeunesse
Todd C. LaJeunesse Pennsylvania State University
Marco Taviani
Marco Taviani Schmidt Ocean Institute
Gregor P. Eberli
Gregor P. Eberli University of Miami
William W. L. Cheung
William W. L. Cheung University of British Columbia
Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
Octavio Aburto-Oropeza University of California, San Diego
Vanessa M. Adams
Vanessa M. Adams University of Tasmania
Dierk Hebbeln
Dierk Hebbeln University of Bremen
Mark E. Warner
Mark E. Warner University of Delaware

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