Coral disease following massive bleaching in 2005 causes 60% decline in coral cover on reefs in the US Virgin Islands

Coral Reefs

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 925-937

  Miller, J ^a   Muller, E ^b   Rogers, C ^c   Waara, R ^a   Atkinson, A ^a   Whelan, K R T ^a   Patterson, M ^a   Witcher, B ^a  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean reefs; Coral bleaching; Coral disease; Coral monitoring

Indexed keywords

CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; DISEASE INCIDENCE; LESION; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; LESSER ANTILLES; VIRGIN ISLANDS;

AGARICIA AGARICITES; ANTHOZOA; COLPOPHYLLIA NATANS; MONTASTRAEA; MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 70350608456     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-009-0531-7     Document Type: Article

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