[Coral-List] amazing recovery of corals in the Southern Line Islands after bleaching mortality

Thu Nov 17 17:37:30 UTC 2022

Dear Listers,
Here is another paper on the bleaching that occurred in 2004 after the
NatGeo article was published earlier that year.
   Phil

ATOLL RESEARCH BULLETIN
NO. 551
CATASTROPHIC CORAL MORTALITY IN THE REMOTE CENTRAL
PACIFIC OCEAN: KIRABATI PHOENIX ISLANDS
BY
ABIGAIL ALLING, ORLA DOHERTY, HEATHER LOGAN,
LINDSEY FELDMAN, AND PHILLIP DUSTAN
ISSUED BY
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S.A.
DECEMBER

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 10:11 AM Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> There are also now papers documenting what happened during the last
> bleaching events at Jarvis Island in the Line Is.  Jarvis is a tiny US
> island that is quite close to the equator, and if you remember maps of sea
> surface temperature during El Ninos, typically there is a narrow tongue of
> hot water that extends westward from South America, right on the equator.
> The first paper documents over 98% coral mortality on Jarvis from those El
> Nino events.  The second documents succession during the first 3 years
> after bleaching, with the abundance of new recruits increasing by the end
> of three years.  But the formerly dominant Pocillopora and Montipora
> abundances remain low so far.
>
> In the Southern Line Islands featured in the video, those islands are well
> south of Jarvis and so likely were not in that hot water tongue and had
> much less heat stress, and had "only" about 50% mortality.  One would guess
> that recovery from 98% mortality might take longer than from 50%
> mortality.  But we also might worry that the long-term effects might be
> greater, and it might even not regain its former coral cover, let alone
> composition.  I wonder if Jarvis's 98% mortality might be the highest
> mortality yet reported from a bleaching event?
>
> https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-019-01838-0
>
> https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-022-02246-7
>
> Not open-access.  If you become a member of the International Coral Reef
> society, you gain access to all issues of this journal, Coral Reefs, at a
> bargain price.  If not, check for the corresponding author's email address.
>
> Cheers, Doug
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 2:15 PM Douglas Fenner <
> douglasfennertassi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Once devastated, these Pacific reefs have seen an amazing rebirth
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/once-devastated-these-pacific-reefs-have-seen-an-amazing-rebirth-feature
> >
> > Cheers, Doug
> >
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