Recent massive coral mortality events in the South China Sea: Was global warming and ENSO variability responsible?

Chemical Geology

Volumn 320-321, Issue , 2012, Pages 54-65

  Yu, Kefu ^a,b   Zhao, Jian xin ^b   Shi, Qi ^a   Price, Gilbert J ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coral bleaching; El Ni o; Global warming; Massive coral mortality; South China Sea; U series dating

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC EVENTS; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL COMMUNITY; CORAL MORTALITY; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGICAL MONITORING; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH-PRECISION; INTERANNUAL; INTERDECADAL; NANSHA ISLANDS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PORITES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TIME-SCALES; U-SERIES DATING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; REEFS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CORAL; CORAL REEF; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SPRATLY ISLANDS;

ANTHOZOA; PORITES;

EID: 84862284608     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.05.028     Document Type: Article

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