Rapid recovery of a coral reef at Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands

• Main Authors: Glynn, Peter W., Riegl, Bernhard, Correa, Adrienne M. S., Baums, Iliana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Conservation; Ecology; Environment; Darwin Island; Galapagos
• Online Access: http://aquaticcommons.org/21423/; http://aquaticcommons.org/21423/1/GR_66_p6-13.pdf

Surveys at Darwin Island in 2006 and 2007 have demonstrated that this northernmost Galapagos Islands coral reef has recovered significantly since the 1982–3 El Niño event. When first surveyed in 1975, this structural reef exhibited actively accreting frameworks of pocilloporid and poritid corals. Th...