coral bleaching (fwd)
Ruiz renteria Fco. Gerardo
renteria at mar.icmyl.unam.mx
Thu Oct 19 21:08:39 EDT 1995
This message was sent to the CARICOMP data management center just before
ROXANE paid us a visit. It is now being forwarded to coral-list since it
is of regional interest. The estimations we talk about are really rough
estimates.
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:46:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Ruiz renteria Fco. Gerardo <renteria at mar.icmyl.unam.mx>
To: Linton Dulcie <dmlinton at uwimona.edu.jm>
Subject: coral bleaching
Observations of coral bleaching were made last october 6th on Puerto
Morelos, Mexico Reef.
Semiquantitative Estimations of damaged species and percentage number of
colonies affecte are as follows:
percentage Species
no. colonies
1 to 20 Diploria strigosa, Porites astreoides,
Acropora palmata, Acropora cervicornis
41 to 60 Porites porites, Isophyllastrea rigida, Isophyllia
sinuosa, Millepora alcicornis
61 to 80 Palythoa (zoanthid)
81 to 100 Montastrea annularis, Millepora complanata Other less
abundant species, within this range were:
Meandrina meandrites, Acropora prolifera
some species of gorgonians showed signs of bleaching.
Obsevations were made by Rosa Rodriguez and Francisco Ruiz.
We will put this announcemente on the reef list and other communication
media since it is of general importance for the region
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