Coral bleaching response index: a new tool to standardize and compare susceptibility to thermal bleaching
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Coral bleaching response index: a new tool to standardize and compare susceptibility to thermal bleaching.
As coral bleaching events become more frequent and intense, our ability to predict and mitigate future events depends upon our capacity to interpret patterns within previous episodes. Responses to thermal stress vary among coral species; however the diversity of coral assemblages, environmental conditions, assessment protocols, and severity criteria applied in the global effort to document blea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Change Biology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1354-1013,1365-2486
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13276