Rapid Recovery of a Coral Reef at Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands

• Main Authors: Glynn, Peter W., Riegl, Bernhard, Correa, Adrienne M. S., Baums, Iliana B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NSUWorks 2009
• Subjects: Darwin; Coral reef; Marine Biology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Darwin Island; Galapagos
• Online Access: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/347; https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1387&context=occ_facarticles

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...