Thermal stress markers in Colpophyllia natans provide an archive of site-specific bleaching events

Coral Reefs

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 181-186

  Mallela, Jennie ^a,b   Hetzinger, Steffen ^c   Halfar, Jochen ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Monitoring; Reef management; Sclerochronology; Temperature anomaly; Terrestrial runoff

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROWTH RESPONSE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; RUNOFF; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WATER QUALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; TOBAGO; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ANTHOZOA; COLPOPHYLLIA NATANS;

EID: 84958774383     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-015-1350-7     Document Type: Article

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