[Coral-List] Help with bleaching in Fiji - CoralWatch coral health charts

[Kylie McPherson]

Hi Ron

We have something that may be able to help you - we've developed colour 
charts to monitor bleaching and they include a thermometer.  The CoralWatch 
Coral Health Chart consists of a series of coloured areas representing the 
most common coral colours.  Within each area, the brightness of the colours 
is varied systematically to represent different stages of bleaching and 
recovery.  Within species, each colour corresponds to a concentration of 
symbiotic dinoflagellate.  In the field, you simply compare the colour of a 
coral with the colours on the chart and record matching codes.

If you would like me to send you a chart (free of charge) please let me know.

Cheers Kylie

Kylie McPherson
Research Project Manager
CoralWatch
Vision Touch and Hearing Research Centre
University of Queensland
Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia

P  +61 7 3365 4063
F  +61 7 3365 4522

www.coralwatch.org
www.vthrc.uq.edu.au/ecovis


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>From: Ron Vave <s96007966 at student.usp.ac.fj>
>Subject: [Coral-List] bleaching in the yasawa islands (FIJI)
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>hello all. I'm here to report on coral bleaching on rocky patches within a bay
>in the Yasawa Islands. This was part of a biological survey from the 17th-18th
>Feb 2005, have GPS positions BUT no temperature readings. Sorry about that.
>Bleaching was noticeable from exposed reef flats down to depths of around 10m.
>Acropora digitifera, A. muricata, A. aspera, Goniastrea spp., Symphillia spp.
>with around 80-90% of each colony was severely bleached. Pocillopora
>darmicornis, P. eydouxi, P. meandrina and P. verrucosa were present and were
>not so badly affected by bleaching (less than 10% for each colony). thank you,
>ron
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