Severe, widespread El Niño-associated coral bleaching in the US Phoenix Islands

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 623-638

  Vargas Ángel, Bernardo ^a   Looney, Erin E ^a   Vetter, Oliver J ^a   Coccagna, Edmund F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COLONY STRUCTURE; CORAL BLEACHING; DIAMETER; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SURVEY; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ACROPORA; ANTHOZOA; FUNGIA; MONTIPORA; PAVONA; POCILLOPORA; PORITES; PSAMMOCORA;

EID: 79960497310     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: 15536955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5343/bms.2010.1095     Document Type: Article

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