Mortality, recovery, and community shifts of scleractinian corals in Puerto Rico one decade after the 2005 regional bleaching event

This work analyzes the mortality, recovery, and shifts in the composition of scleractinian corals from Puerto Rico one decade after the 2005 regional coral bleaching event. Temporal and spatial patterns of coral community structure were examined using a stratified, non-random sampling approach based...

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Main Authors: Jorge R. García-Sais, Stacey M. Williams, Ali Amirrezvani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-07-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/3611.pdf