Variable Recovery of the Massive Coral, Porites Lobata, in Response to El Nino-Southern Oscillation Events at Devil's Crown, Galapagos, Ecuador

Variable Recovery of the Massive Coral, Porites Lobata, in Response to El Nino-Southern Oscillation Events at Devil's Crown, Galapagos, Ecuador

Porites lobata is an important reef building coral in the tropical eastern Pacific and the dominant Porites species in the Galápagos archipelago. Following the 1982-83 El Niño-Southern Oscillation the Galápagos Islands experienced 97-99% coral mortality, leaving many areas throughout the archipelago...

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Main Author: Paul, Nicole Christine
Format: Others
Published: NSUWorks 2012
Subjects:
Porites lobata
Eastern Pacific
Galápagos Islands
El Niño - Southern Oscillation
El Niño
La Niña
sea surface temperature
coral bleaching
coral recovery
partial coral mortality
coral resilience
Marine Biology
Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
Online Access:http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/93
http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1309&context=occ_stuetd

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