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| Wilkinson, C.P.. |
| There has been significant bleaching of hard and soft corals in widely separate parts of the world from mid-1997 to the last months of 1998. Much of this bleaching coincided with a large El Nino event, immediately switching over to a strong La Nina. Some of the reports by experienced observers are of unprecedented bleaching in places as widespread as (from west to east) the Middle East, East Africa, the Indian Ocean, South, Southeast and East Asia, far West and far East Pacific, the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Coral reefs; El Nino phenomena. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/545 |
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| Whittington, P.A.; Underhill, L.G.; Esmonde-White, D.A.; Wilkinson, C.P.. |
| The African Penguin is rare east of Algoa Bay, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Ninety-nine penguins were found onshore along the coast of KwaZulu-Natal in 1981–1999, mostly in a state of starvation. Of these, 77% were between June and October during, and immediately after, the ‘sardine run’ of Sardine Sardinops sagax; 95% of birds that were aged were first-year birds; 96% were in the southern half of KwaZulu-Natal, south of Mtunzini (29°S) where the sardine run is strongest. The observations suggest that juvenile penguins from the nearest breeding colonies, in Algoa Bay, are drawn eastwards by the migrating Sardines; when these shoals dissipate, a lack of food leads to them coming ashore. |
| Tipo: Journal Contribution |
Palavras-chave: Marine mammals. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/425 |
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