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Quick look report : 2014 Acropora palmata bleaching event in the upper Florida Keys
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2015
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Alternative Title:2014 Acropora palmata bleaching event in the upper Florida Keys
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Description:"During summer 2014, we observed bleaching among many coral species in the upper Florida Keys. As water temperatures continued to rise, increasing numbers of coral species were observed with bleached tissue. In mid to late August, we observed bleaching affecting acroporid corals (Fig. 1) at various sites. Based onthese informal observations, we undertook additional surveys of our 7 existing Acropora palmata monitoring sites (Fig. 2). This report describes the nature of the bleaching event along with preliminary data onthe progression and impact of this event on the A. palmata at these sites. While the Florida Keys reefs have experienced moderate bleaching events in the past decade, this is the first bleaching event to affect local A. palmata since the 1998 El Niño-associated bleaching event (Miller et al. 2002). The only other extensive description of bleaching affecting A. palmata is from the US Virgin Islands during the Caribbean wide thermal bleaching event in 2005"--Intro/Preface. [doi:10.7289/V57S7KS6 (http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V57S7KS6)]
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