Relationship between historical sea-surface temperature variability and climate change-induced coral mortality in the western Indian Ocean

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 964-970

  Ateweberhan, M ^a   McClanahan, Tim R ^b  

^a Wildlife Conservition Society   (Kenya)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

1998 Climatic oscillation; Climate change; Climatic disturbance; Coral bleaching; Coral cover change; El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO); SST distributions; Temperature variation

Indexed keywords

1998 CLIMATIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS; CORAL BLEACHING; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BLEACHING; CLEANING; OCEANOGRAPHY; REEFS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXTREME EVENT; MORTALITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAT TOLERANCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; INDIAN OCEAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; INDIAN OCEAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST);

ANTHOZOA;

SEA WATER;

EID: 77955671986     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.03.033     Document Type: Article

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