Caribbean corals in crisis: record thermal stress, bleaching, and mortality in 2005.

Caribbean corals in crisis: record thermal stress, bleaching, and mortality in 2005.

BACKGROUND: The rising temperature of the world's oceans has become a major threat to coral reefs globally as the severity and frequency of mass coral bleaching and mortality events increase. In 2005, high ocean temperatures in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean resulted in the most severe ble...

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Main Authors: C Mark Eakin, Jessica A Morgan, Scott F Heron, Tyler B Smith, Gang Liu, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Bart Baca, Erich Bartels, Carolina Bastidas, Claude Bouchon, Marilyn Brandt, Andrew W Bruckner, Lucy Bunkley-Williams, Andrew Cameron, Billy D Causey, Mark Chiappone, Tyler R L Christensen, M James C Crabbe, Owen Day, Elena de la Guardia, Guillermo Díaz-Pulido, Daniel DiResta, Diego L Gil-Agudelo, David S Gilliam, Robert N Ginsburg, Shannon Gore, Héctor M Guzmán, James C Hendee, Edwin A Hernández-Delgado, Ellen Husain, Christopher F G Jeffrey, Ross J Jones, Eric Jordán-Dahlgren, Les S Kaufman, David I Kline, Philip A Kramer, Judith C Lang, Diego Lirman, Jennie Mallela, Carrie Manfrino, Jean-Philippe Maréchal, Ken Marks, Jennifer Mihaly, W Jeff Miller, Erich M Mueller, Erinn M Muller, Carlos A Orozco Toro, Hazel A Oxenford, Daniel Ponce-Taylor, Norman Quinn, Kim B Ritchie, Sebastián Rodríguez, Alberto Rodríguez Ramírez, Sandra Romano, Jameal F Samhouri, Juan A Sánchez, George P Schmahl, Burton V Shank, William J Skirving, Sascha C C Steiner, Estrella Villamizar, Sheila M Walsh, Cory Walter, Ernesto Weil, Ernest H Williams, Kimberly Woody Roberson, Yusri Yusuf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2981599?pdf=render

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