Coral bleach-out in Belize

Richard B. Aronson (), William F. Precht, Ian G. Macintyre and Thaddeus J. T. Murdoch
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Richard B. Aronson: Dauphin Island Sea Lab
William F. Precht: PBS&J
Ian G. Macintyre: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Thaddeus J. T. Murdoch: Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Nature, 2000, vol. 405, issue 6782, 36-36

Abstract: Abstract The highest sea surface temperatures ever recorded, related both to the 1997–98 El Niño/Southern Oscillation and to global warming1, caused severe bleaching of corals worldwide in 1998 (ref. 2). This thermal anomaly induced mass mortality of scleractinian corals on lagoonal reefs in Belize, the first time that a coral population in the Caribbean has collapsed completely from bleaching. Cores extracted from the Belizean reefs showed that these events were unprecedented over at least the past 3,000 years.

Date: 2000
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