The Effects of Coral Bleaching in Southern Tropical America: Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela
Author(s)
Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto
Bastidas, Carolina
Rodriguez, Sebastian
Leao, Zelinda
Kikuchi, Ruy
Oliveira, Marilia
Gil, Diego
Garzon-Ferreira, Jaime
Reyes-Nivia, Maria Catalina
Navas-Camacho, Raul
Santodomingo, Nadiezhda
Diaz-Pulido, Guillermo
Venera-Ponton, Dagoberto
Flores-Leiva, Lenin
Rangel-Campo, Alejandro
Orozco, Carlos
Marquez, Juan Carlos
Zea, Sven
Lopez-Victoria, Mateo
Sanchez, Juan Armando
Hurtado, Maria Clara
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2008
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The most extreme coral bleaching and mortality event to hit the Wider Caribbean (including Atlantic) coral reefs occurred in 2005. This was during the warmest year ever recorded, eclipsing the 9 warmest years that had occurred since 1995. The previous warmest year was 1998, which resulted in massive coral bleaching throughout many parts of the world and effectively destroyed 16% of the world's coral reefs, especially in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. Unlike the events of 1998, this climate-related bleaching event did not occur in an information vacuum; this time there were many scientific tools available and alerts ...
View more >The most extreme coral bleaching and mortality event to hit the Wider Caribbean (including Atlantic) coral reefs occurred in 2005. This was during the warmest year ever recorded, eclipsing the 9 warmest years that had occurred since 1995. The previous warmest year was 1998, which resulted in massive coral bleaching throughout many parts of the world and effectively destroyed 16% of the world's coral reefs, especially in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. Unlike the events of 1998, this climate-related bleaching event did not occur in an information vacuum; this time there were many scientific tools available and alerts issued to those working and managing coral reefs in the Caribbean to assess the damage and possibly prepare management responses to reduce the damage. This book explains coral bleaching and follows the sequence of the events leading up to it, and documents much of the damage that occurred to the coral reefs and consequently to the people dependent on coral reefs for their livelihoods in the Wider Caribbean.
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View more >The most extreme coral bleaching and mortality event to hit the Wider Caribbean (including Atlantic) coral reefs occurred in 2005. This was during the warmest year ever recorded, eclipsing the 9 warmest years that had occurred since 1995. The previous warmest year was 1998, which resulted in massive coral bleaching throughout many parts of the world and effectively destroyed 16% of the world's coral reefs, especially in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. Unlike the events of 1998, this climate-related bleaching event did not occur in an information vacuum; this time there were many scientific tools available and alerts issued to those working and managing coral reefs in the Caribbean to assess the damage and possibly prepare management responses to reduce the damage. This book explains coral bleaching and follows the sequence of the events leading up to it, and documents much of the damage that occurred to the coral reefs and consequently to the people dependent on coral reefs for their livelihoods in the Wider Caribbean.
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Book Title
Status of Caribbean Coral Reefs After Bleaching and Hurricanes in 2005
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Subject
Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)