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| Daby, D.; Hardman, E.; Turner, J.; Persands, S.; Klaus, R.; Fagoonee, I.; Baghooli, R.. |
| The study investigated whether the coral reefs of Mauritius had suffered a mass bleaching event during 1998 as had been reported for other Indian Ocean reefs. Sea-surface temperature (SST) anomaly charts produced by NOAA show that SST was raised 1o C - 1.25o C above the climatological maximum for this region during February 1998, but the extent of bleaching around Mauritius was thought not to be severe, but was not recorded. A rapid assessment of the degree of coral bleaching on reefs around the whole coast of Mauritius was made during April 1999. Surveys were conducted while snorkelling and SCUBA diving and assessments made by direct observation, underwater video transects and underwater photography. Video was analysed to confirm the results from the... |
| Tipo: Preprint |
Palavras-chave: Coral reefs. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/453 |
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