Sentences with phrase «scale bleaching event»

Massive coral bleaching in Indonesia (08/16/2010) A large - scale bleaching event due to high ocean temperatures appears to be underway off the coast of Sumatra, an Indonesian island, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

«This is the first documented regional - scale bleaching event in WA during an El Nino year and the first time we have been able to measure the percentage of impacted corals in 2016,» she said.

Not exact matches

«In 2010, we've been seeing the second global - scale series of bleaching events.

Between 2014 and 2016, the world witnessed the longest global bleaching event ever recorded, which killed coral on an unprecedented scale.

This is the third bleaching event that the barrier reef has experienced at a large scale, after 1998 and 2002, but this is much worse in terms of the number of reefs that are severely bleached.

Our arrival coincided with a bleaching episode, one that has given our team — normally based at the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia — its first opportunity to witness a large - scale event of this kind.

This knowledge will help managers increase the likelihood of coral surviving bleaching events in the future by reducing the impact of other stressors, such as pollution and over-use, at both local and regional scales.»

These sources of stress can contribute to localized bleaching events (tens to hundreds of meters), but mass coral bleaching events occur at regional scales, often extending over tens to hundreds of kilometers.

For each reef, the researchers recorded «severe bleaching» events — where more than 30 % of corals were bleached at the scale of tens to hundreds of kilometres — and «moderate bleaching» episodes — where less than 30 % of corals were affected over the same scale.

Officials are optimistic the reefs will bounce back from last year's bleaching, as they did within about a decade of 1998, the last event on that scale.

Examines how and why the severity of recurrent major bleaching events has varied at multiple scales, using aerial and underwater surveys of Australian reefs combined with satellite - derived sea surface temperatures

Because the events were rare, localized, and corals typically recovered, bleaching events caused little concern... in the early to mid 1980s, however, coral reefs around the world began to experience large scale bleaching (Goenaga & Canals 1990; Goreau 1990; Williams & Bunkley - Williams 1990; Glynn 1991; Hayes & Goreau 1991; Goreau 1992; Glynn 1996; Brown 1997)...» http://www.colby.edu/biology/BI358j/Readings/Coral%20bleachingand%20global%20change.pdf

Reaser et al 2000, «Coral Bleaching and Global Climate Change: Scientific Findings and Policy Recommendations» «Nearly 80 years ago, Alfred Mayer described coral bleaching as a natural event, when he observed small scale bleaching in overheated tide pools (Goreau & HayBleaching and Global Climate Change: Scientific Findings and Policy Recommendations» «Nearly 80 years ago, Alfred Mayer described coral bleaching as a natural event, when he observed small scale bleaching in overheated tide pools (Goreau & Haybleaching as a natural event, when he observed small scale bleaching in overheated tide pools (Goreau & Haybleaching in overheated tide pools (Goreau & Hayes 1994).

Climate threshold - The point at which external forcing of the climate system, such as the increasing atmospheric concentration of heat - trapping gases (greenhouse gas es), triggers a significant climatic or environmental event which is considered unalterable, or recoverable only on very long time - scales, such as widespread bleaching of corals or a collapse of oceanic circulation systems.