Checking the Status, Growth and Beaching of Nursery Corals in American Samoa (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Checking the Status, Growth and Beaching of Nursery Corals in American Samoa

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Checking the status, growth and beaching of nursery corals in American Samoa. After 8 months of growth, these nursery panels were hit by a major bleaching event. Colonies in the nursery bleached less if they came from warm water parts of the reef where corals have adapted to higher temperatures.

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Image courtesy of Alice Lawrence (photographer).

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