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CHAMP - Coral Bleaching - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
SSTs remain at 29.3°C or higher for one month (Hoegh-Guldberg 1999). Therefore, in the Caribbean and Florida Keys, when SSTs rise and stay above this thermal threshold, coral bleaching ...
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Coral Reefs
Coral reefs thrive in a very narrow range of temperatures. A sharp increase in water temperatures as seen in El Nino years can cause coral bleaching and eventual death to the coral. Photo: Bleaching occurs when coral ...
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CHAMP - Coral Reef Biology - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Coral-Reef Macroconsumers: Patterns and Effects on Coral Community Structure." Ecosystems of the World v. 25-Coral Reefs. Edited by Z. Dubinsky. Elsevier Science. New York, NY. [top] What is coral bleaching? Mass bleaching ...
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CHAMP - Coral Disease Identification and Information - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Bleaching in the Mediterranean Coral Oculina Patagonica.' Marine Ecology Progress Series 226 249-254. Israely T, Banin E and Rosenberg E (2001). 'Growth, Differentiation and Death of Vibrio Shiloi in Coral ...
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CHAMP - Coral Disease Identification and Information - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Bleach - to make or become white or colorless by means of chemicals, by exposure to sunlight, etc. In coral – bleaching or bleached – the reduction in intensity or complete absence of coloration within living coral, due to loss of pigmentation, death, or expulsion of ...
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Mass Coral Bleaching, intro
Coral Bleaching, intro MASS CORAL BLEACHING 'White flags' in the tropical sea? ...What do they mean? Could the death of some corals be due to nitrogen starvation? If so, what can ... an independent risk factor for mass bleaching events on coral reefs. - "High water temperature" and "high light exposure" are not adequate explanations for the coral bleaching phenomenon. - Slowing of the "biological ...
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Mass coral bleaching - the result of simple food starvation?
The next section of this report takes a look at the global mass coral bleaching pattern, with a focus on fishing as a isolated “bleaching ...
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Coral reefs: a growing concern
"The coral expels them. The algae give coral -- which is actually transparent -- its color, so with no algae it looks white. It means the coral is starving." Once the coral starve to death, algae ... A report presented to the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force conference in Maui indicated that coral reefs have "suffered the most extensive and severe bleaching and subsequent mortality in modern record" due to ...
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WWF - Climate change problems: coral bleaching
Recent years have seen widespread and severe coral bleaching episodes around the world, with coral ...
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NOAA Announces Unprecedented Coral Bleaching
Coral Bleaching NOAA REPORTS RECORD-BREAKING CORAL BLEACHING OCCURRED IN TROPICS THIS YEAR Washington, October 15 -- NOAA announced today that unprecedented coral bleaching and extremely warm waters occurred throughout the Tropics during the first half of 1998. Coral ...
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