Coral Bleaching in the Persian/Arabian Gulf Is Modulated by Summer Winds

Corals in the Persian/Arabian Gulf are the most thermally tolerant in the world, but live very near the thresholds of their thermal tolerance. Warming sea temperatures associated with climate change have resulted in numerous coral bleaching events regionally since the mid-1990s, but it has been uncl...

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Main Authors: Francesco Paparella, Chenhao Xu, Grace O. Vaughan, John A. Burt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2019.00205/full