Predicting coral bleaching in response to environmental stressors using 8 years of global-scale data

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 161, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 423-438

  Yee, Susan Harrell ^a   Barron, MacE G ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral bleaching; Logistic regression; Model selection; Remote sensing; Sea surface temperature; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GLOBAL SCALE; LARGE-SCALE PREDICTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SENSING DATA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE-INDUCED; WATER CLARITY; WATER DEPTH; WATER MIXING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLEANING; FORECASTING; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BLEACHING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; DATA PROCESSING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LOGISTIC MODELS; TEMPERATURE;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 74349114500     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-0758-3     Document Type: Article

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