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

Thu Nov 17 19:38:39 UTC 2022

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Cheers, Doug

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 6:37 AM Phillip Dustan <phil.dustan at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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
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>> 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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