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Repeat bleaching of a central Pacific coral reef over the past six decades (1960–2016)

by Alice E. Alpert; Anne L. Cohen; Bernardo Vargas-Ángel; Charles W. Young; Elizabeth J. Drenkard; George P. Lohmann; Hannah C. Barkley; Hanny E. Rivera; Nathaniel R. Mollica; Russell E. Brainard; Thomas M. DeCarlo

Nov 8, 2018
  • Energy and Environment

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The oceans are warming and coral reefs are bleaching with increased frequency and severity, fueling concerns for their survival through this century. Yet in the central equatorial Pacific, some of the world's most productive reefs regularly experience extreme heat associated with El NiƱo. Here we use skeletal signatures preserved in long-lived corals on Jarvis Island to evaluate the coral community response to multiple successive heatwaves since 1960. By tracking skeletal stress band formation through the 2015-16 El Nino, which killed 95% of Jarvis corals, we validate their utility as proxies of bleaching severity and show that 2015-16 was not the first catastrophic bleaching event on Jarvis. Since 1960, eight severe (>30% bleaching) and two moderate (

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  • doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0183-7

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  • Communications Biology

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  • National Science Foundation
  • Robertson Foundation
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

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  • Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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  • Article

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  • English

Geography

  • Pacific Ocean
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Title: Repeat bleaching of a central Pacific coral reef over the past six decades (1960–2016)
Publication date 2018-11-08
Publication Year 2018
Authors Alice E. Alpert , Anne L. Cohen , Bernardo Vargas-Ángel , Charles W. Young , Elizabeth J. Drenkard , George P. Lohmann , Hannah C. Barkley , Hanny E. Rivera , Nathaniel R. Mollica , Russell E. Brainard , Thomas M. DeCarlo
Copyright holder(s) Communications Biology
Geographical Focus Pacific Ocean
Document type Article
Language English
URL: https://feedingamerica.issuelab.org/resource/repeat-bleaching-of-a-central-pacific-coral-reef-over-the-past-six-decades-1960-2016.html
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