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Chapter 4: Climate variability and change: Monitoring data and evidence for increased coral bleaching stress 
Eakin, CM; Lough, JM; Heron, SF 
2009 
Springer-Verlag 
Berlin, Germany 
Coral Bleaching: Patterns, Processes, Causes and Consequences 
English 
has other version or edition 7720037 Climate variability and change: Monitoring data and evidence for increased coral bleaching stress
Coral reefs live within a fairly narrow envelope of environmental conditions constrained by water temperatures, light, salinity, nutrients, bathymetry and the aragonite saturation state of seawater. While the natural environment can be highly variable and potentially stressful to corals, humans are now placing the world’s coral reefs in crisis as a result of direct local- to regional-scale insults combined with accelerating global changes. The global-scale insults result from increased concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases that are rapidly acidifying and warming ocean waters. This chapter focuses on the changing physical environment surrounding coral reef ecosystems and especially the rising SSTs that are responsible for most mass coral bleaching events. We make use of improved long-term records of surface ocean climate to document SST changes in the vicinity of coral reefs and how the risk of SST conditions conducive to coral bleaching varies with climate variability such as El Niño--Southern Oscillation events. We describe the application of satellite-based SSTs and related products that have been developed to detect and monitor environmental conditions leading to coral bleaching around the globe. 
coral reef; great barrier reef; advance very high resolution radiometer; advance very high resolution radiometer; coral bleaching 
1st 
van Oppen, MJH; Lough, JM 
Ecological Studies, volume 205 
9783540697756