Mass coral reef bleaching: A recent outcome of increased El Nino activity?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 325-330

  Stone, Lewi ^a   Huppert, Amit ^a   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^b   Bhasin, Heather ^a   Loya, Yossi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Climate change; Coral reef; El Nino; Hot spots; Southern Oscillation; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0032831944     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00092.x     Document Type: Article

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