Climate variability and change: monitoring data and evidence for increased coral bleaching stress

• Main Authors: Eakin, C.M., Lough, J.M., Heron, Scott
• Other Authors: van Oppen, Madeleine J.H., Lough, Janice M.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2009
• Subjects: Hoegh; Wilkinson; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/21523/4/21523_Eakin_et_al_2009_cover.JPG; https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/21523/3/21523_Eakin_et_al_2009.pdf

Coral reefs live within a fairly narrow envelope of environmental conditions constrained by water temperatures, light, salinity, nutrients, bathymetry and the aragonite saturation state of seawater (Buddemeier and Kinzie 1976; Kleypas et al. 1999; Hoegh-Guldberg 2005). Their natural environment, at...