Bleaching and mortality of reef organisms during a warming event in 1995 on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2001, Pages 233-238

  Jiménez, Carlos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Caribbean; Coral mortality; Coral reefs; Costa Rica; Warming

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEAT; MORTALITY; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEAT; MORTALITY; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAWATER;

EID: 0042177190     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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