Sea surface temperatures and coral reef bleaching off La Parguera, Puerto Rico (northeastern Caribbean Sea)

Coral Reefs

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 377-382

  Winter, A ^a   Appeldoorn, R S ^a   Bruckner, A ^a   Williams Jr , E H ^a   Goenaga, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Caribbean; Corals; Species

Indexed keywords

CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; GLOBAL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0032408315     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003380050143     Document Type: Article

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