Mass coral bleaching in 2010 in the Southern Caribbean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Alemu I, Jahson Berhane ^a,b   Clement, Ysharda ^a  

^a Institute of Marine Affairs Trinidad and Tobago   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL GROWTH; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COLPOPHYLLIA NATANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MANAGER; MASS CORAL BLEACHING; MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA; NONHUMAN; SEA; SIDERASTREA SIDEREA; TAXON; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARIBBEAN REGION; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84896981655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083829     Document Type: Article

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