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Title: Can differential bleaching and mortality among coral species offer useful indicators for assessment and management of reefs under stress?

Description: Coral reefs are increasingly subject to a variety of threats from local to global scales. The development of monitoring and assessment tools to diagnose coral reef community responses to threats would assist greatly in management of their impacts. Th...

Author: DO Obura

Subject: Coral reefs; Coral; Bleaching; Mortality; Ecosystem resilience; Indicator species; Biological stress; El Nino phenomena; Analytical techniques; Nature conservation; Environment management; Environmental stress; Management; Octocorallia; Scleractinia; ISW, Kenya, Coast; ISW, Mozambique; ISW, Madagascar; ISW, Tanzania; ISW, Indian Ocean; Kenya; Tanzania; Mozambique ; Soft corals; Stony corals

Publisher: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, [URL:http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/bms/]

Date Issued: 2001

Resource Type: Book Monograph; Conference

Resource Identifier (ISSN) : 0007-4977

Source: Proceedings of the Intl. Conf. on Scientific Aspects of Coral Reef Assessment, Monitoring, and Restoration. pp. 421-442. Bulletin of Marine Science [Bull. Mar. Sci.]. Vol. 69, no. 2.

Language: English

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