Coral bleaching is a stress‐related response that can be triggered by elevated sea surface
temperatures (SST). Recent increases in the frequency of coral bleaching have led to …

Background The rising temperature of the world's oceans has become a major threat to coral
reefs globally as the severity and frequency of mass coral bleaching and mortality events …

Coral reef ecosystems are threatened on a worldwide basis, with overfishing, diseases,
eutrophication, hurricanes, overpopulation, and global climate change all contributing to …

Coral reefs live within a fairly narrow envelope of environmental conditions constrained by
water temperatures, light, salinity, nutrients, bathymetry and the aragonite saturation state of …

Ocean warming threatens the functioning of coral reef ecosystems by inducing mass coral
bleaching and mortality events. The link between temperature and coral bleaching is now …

In late summer 2005 a mass coral bleaching event occurred in the Caribbean. Here we
quantify coral bleaching in Barbados at six sites on the island's sheltered west and exposed …

Thermal-stress events associated with climate change cause coral bleaching and mortality
that threatens coral reefs globally. Yet coral bleaching patterns vary spatially and temporally …

Large-scale coral bleaching was first observed in 1979 and has occurred throughout
virtually all of the tropics since that time. Severe bleaching may result in the loss of live coral …

Episodes of mass coral bleaching around the world in recent decades have been attributed
to periods of anomalously warm ocean temperatures. In 2005, the sea surface temperature …

In the northeast Caribbean, doldrum-like conditions combined with elevated water
temperatures in the summer/fall 2005 created the most severe coral bleaching event ever …