Two spatial scales in a bleaching event: Corals from the mildest and the most extreme thermal environments escape mortality

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1531-1545

  Pineda, Jesús ^a   Starczak, Victoria ^a   Tarrant, Ann ^a   Blythe, Jonathan ^a   Davis, Kristen ^a,d   Farrar, Tom ^a   Berumen, Michael ^b   da Silva, José C B ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; CORAL BLEACHING; EXTREME EVENT; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EGYPT; RED SEA COAST;

EID: 84880655756     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.5.1531     Document Type: Article

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