Coral mortality
Hector Reyes Bonilla
hreyes at calafia.uabcs.mx
Wed Jan 14 11:56:59 EST 1998
Dear coraleros:
I have been looking for data on why corals die after they were
bleached. In the beginning, I thought that it was a physiological problem
or so, but after following bleached corals in the Gulf of California for
several months, I observed that most of them die because of overgrowing
of other species (mostly algae), and not by "natural causes". Do you know
of any paper doing explicit reference of this? Thanks.
Hector Reyes
UABCS, Depto. Biologia Marina
La Paz, BCS, MEXICO
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