Response of coral assemblages to thermal stress: Are bleaching intensity and spatial patterns consistent between events?

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5031-5042

  Penin, Lucie ^a,b,c   Vidal Dupiol, Jeremie ^b,d   Adjeroud, Mehdi ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c Laboratoire d'Excellence CORAIL   (France)

^d CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE DE MONACO   (Monaco)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coral bleaching; Disturbances; French Polynesia; Moorea; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

CORAL BLEACHING; DISTURBANCES; FRENCH POLYNESIA; MOOREA; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

CLEANING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; REEFS; THERMAL STRESS;

BLEACHING;

ACCLIMATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; DISTURBANCE; GLOBAL WARMING; MORTALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL ASSEMBLAGE; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

MOOREA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84879039803     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2923-3     Document Type: Article

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