Coral bleaching impacts from back-to-back 2015–2016 thermal anomalies in the remote central Indian Ocean

Studying scleractinian coral bleaching and recovery dynamics in remote, isolated reef systems offers an opportunity to examine impacts of global reef stressors in the absence of local human threats. Reefs in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean, suffered severe bleaching and mortality in 201...

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Published in:	Coral reefs Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 605 - 618
Main Authors:	Head, Catherine E. I., Bayley, Daniel T. I., Rowlands, Gwilym, Roche, Ronan C., Tickler, David M., Rogers, Alex D., Koldewey, Heather, Turner, John R., Andradi-Brown, Dominic A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.08.2019 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Acropora Anomalies Archipelagoes Atolls Biomedical and Life Sciences Chlorophyll Chlorophyll a Coral bleaching Corals Freshwater & Marine Ecology Heating Heterogeneity Life Sciences Mortality Oceanography Patchiness Probability theory Recovery Reefs Spatial heterogeneity Survival Thermal resistance Indian Ocean Chagos Archipelago Chagos archipelago Coral mortality Coral bleaching British Indian Ocean Territory BIOT Coral community composition
ISSN:	0722-4028, 1432-0975
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