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Title: Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025 – Chapter 5 – Eastern Tropical Pacific
Authors: Fernando A. Zapata, Sonia Bejarano, Andrea Arriaga-Madrigal, Juan José Alvarado, Arturo Ayala-Bocos, Amilcar Leví Cupul-Magaña, Inti Keith, Andrés López-Pérez, Priscilla C. Martinez, Nicolas Moity, Manuel Olán-González, Damien Olivier, Juan Pablo Quimbayo, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla, Fernando Rivera, Jenny Carolina Rodríguez-Villalobos, Fabián A. Rodríguez-Zaragoza, Johanna Segovia.
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Date: 27th August 2026
Institution: Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59387/LFPR6347.ETP
Part of: Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025 [DOI LINK]
Cite this chapter: Zapata, F. A., Bejarano, S., Arriaga-Madrigal, A., Alvarado, J. J., et al. (2026). Chapter 5 – Eastern Tropical Pacific. In González-Rivero, M., et al. Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025. Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI). https://doi.org/10.59387/LFPR6347.ETP
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Supplementary Material: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21824430
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With thanks to the co-authors of this chapter:
Fernando A. Zapata, Sonia Bejarano, Andrea Arriaga-Madrigal, Juan José Alvarado, Arturo Ayala-Bocos, Amilcar Leví Cupul-Magaña, Inti Keith, Andrés López-Pérez, Priscilla C. Martinez, Nicolas Moity, Manuel Olán-González, Damien Olivier, Juan Pablo Quimbayo, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla, Fernando Rivera, Jenny Carolina Rodríguez-Villalobos, Fabián A. Rodríguez-Zaragoza, Johanna Segovia.
Edited by: Manuel Gonzalez-Rivero; Thomas Dallison; Jeremy Wicquart; Amanda Brigdale; Erica K. Towle; Murray Logan; Emily K. Fobert; Francis Staub; Serge Planes.
With thanks to the data contributors:
Andrés Felipe Acosta-Chaparro; David Alejandro Alonso-Carvajal; Juan José Alvarado; Imelda G. Amador-Castro; Andrea Arriaga-Madrigal; Arturo Ayala-Bocos; William Bensted-Smith; Margarita Brandt; Luis Calderon-Aguilera; Jose Julio Casas-Maldonado; Luis Chasqui; Amilcar Leví Cupul-Magaña; Graham J. Edgar; Jan Freiwald; Diana Isabel Gómez-López; Ollin T. Gonzalez-Cuellar; Rebeca Granja-Fernández; Cristian Jitala; Inti Keith; Mathieu Leray; Andres Lopez-Perez; Priscilla Carlota Martínez-Panizo; Jenny Mihaly; Nicolas Moity; Raúl Navas-Camacho; Lizzi Oh; Manuel Alejandro Olán-González; Damien Olivier; Sophie Osborn; Caroline Palmer; Georgina Ramírez-Ortiz; Héctor Reyes-Bonilla; Fernando E. Rivera; Favio J. Rivera-Martinez; Alma Paola Rodríguez-Troncoso; Jenny Carolina Rodríguez-Villalobos; Fabián A. Rodríguez-Zaragoza; Laura Sánchez-Valencia; Johanna Segovia-Prado; Rick D. Stuart-Smith; Omar Valencia-Mendez; Fernando A. Zapata.
The GCRMN produces estimations regarding the status and trends of coral reefs using data acquired by the members of the GCRMN network. The data are collected following Data Sharing Agreements (DSA) with data contributors and as such the GCRMN is not the owner of datasets shared by its members. Therefore, for the “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025” report, the GCRMN is unable to share the raw datasets. However, some members of the GCRMN network and report contributors have made their datasets publicly available. For benthic cover monitoring data, such open access datasets are listed here.
All code used to produce the results and figures presented in the “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025” GCRMN report is openly available on a GitHub repository. This repository allows full reproducibility and transparency of the analyses.
