The negative effects of chemical contaminants on tropical marine ecosystems are of
increasing concern as human populations expand adjacent to these communities …

Increases in concentrations of greenhouse gases projected for the 21st century are
expected to lead to increased mean global air and ocean temperatures. The National …

High temperature tolerance experiments performed on Pocillopora damicornis, a major reef-
building coral in the tropical eastern Pacific, resulted in loss of zooxanthellae …

Loss of symbiotic zooxanthellae, or “bleaching” is one of the first visible signs of thermal
stress. Critical threshold temperatures for coral bleaching vary geographically, but can be …

Colonies of Montastrea annularis from Carysfort Reef, Florida, that remained bleached
seven months after the 1987 Caribbean bleaching event were studied to determine the long …

As the bestselling brief book in the oceanography market, Essentials of Oceanography
combines dynamic visuals and a student-friendly narrative to bring oceanography to life. The …

Coral reefs, with their vast diversity of invertebrate, vertebrate and algal species, have
undoubtedly been subjected to natural disturbance since their appearance millions of years …

Elevated temperature (28-34 degrees C) has been hypothesized as the primary cause of the
loss of algal endosymbionts in coral reef-associated invertebrates, a phenomenon observed …

Global sea-surface temperature maps show that mass coral-reef bleaching episodes
between 1983 and 1991 followed positive anomalies more than 1 C above long-term …

Bleaching of reef corals is a phenomenon linked to temperature stress which involves loss of
the symbiotic algae of the coral, which are known as zooxanthellae, and/or loss of algal …