Decline of forereef corals in response to recent warming linked to history of thermal exposure

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 756-760

  Castillo, Karl D ^a   Ries, Justin B ^a   Weiss, Jack M ^b   Lima, Fernando P ^c,d  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CALCIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWATER; SKELETON; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; VULNERABILITY; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; SIDERASTREA SIDEREA;

EID: 84866853795     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1577     Document Type: Article

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