Conservation of Coral Reefs after the 1998 Global Bleaching Event
Large-scale coral bleaching has happened repeatedly in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Caribbean since 1982. Previously it was observed only on a small scale (Williams and Bunkley- Williams 1990;Jokiel & Coles 1990; Glynn 1988, 1991; Goreau et al. 1993; Goreau & Hayes 1994, 1995). The 1998 bleaching event was globally the most extensive such event recorded except in the Caribbean and Central Pacific where a comparison of year-byyear temperature and bleaching maps show that it was comparable with the largest previous events (T.G. et al., unpublished data). Global analyses of coral bleaching are rare, but critical to an understanding of the widespread ecological effect of bleaching events.
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| Format: | Journal Contribution biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2000-02
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| Subjects: | Coral reefs, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/416 |
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| Summary: | Large-scale coral bleaching has happened
repeatedly in the Pacific and Indian
oceans and the Caribbean since
1982. Previously it was observed only
on a small scale (Williams and Bunkley-
Williams 1990;Jokiel & Coles 1990;
Glynn 1988, 1991; Goreau et al. 1993;
Goreau & Hayes 1994, 1995). The
1998 bleaching event was globally the
most extensive such event recorded
except in the Caribbean and Central
Pacific where a comparison of year-byyear
temperature and bleaching maps
show that it was comparable with the
largest previous events (T.G. et al., unpublished
data). Global analyses of
coral bleaching are rare, but critical to
an understanding of the widespread
ecological effect of bleaching events. |
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