Current Crisis Future Warning, Coral Reef Bleaching
Williams Jr. EH and Williams LB. 1988. Current Crisis Future Warning, Coral Reef Bleaching. Sea Frontiers. (March-April):81-87
From the first paragraph: "The weather was a scuba divers dream come true, calm for so long the water was crystal clear. It had been weeks since there was any appreciable wind. The little seacoast town of La Parguera, Puerto Rico sweltered in the tropical summer heat. The weatherman reported record-breaking high temperatures for days on end. Then, something mysterious began to happen. Divers reported crystal-dear waters down to the coral reefs, but thick yellow clouds of water around and 6 feet above the corals."
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Williams Jr., Ernest; Williams, Lucy
- Units
- BUIS
- Keywords
- Acropora palmata, Agaricia, Bleaching, Coral Reefs, Gorgonians, Leptoseris, Montastrea annularis, Mortality, Palythoa caribbea, Siderastrea siderea, Zoanthids, Zooxanthellae