Sustained mass coral bleaching (2016–2017) in Brazilian turbid-zone reefs: taxonomic, cross-shelf and habitat-related trends

• Published in: Coral reefs Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 801 - 813
• Main Authors: Teixeira, Carolina D., Leitão, Rodrigo L. L., Ribeiro, Felipe V., Moraes, Fernando C., Neves, Leonardo M., Bastos, Alex C., Pereira-Filho, Guilherme H., Kampel, Milton, Salomon, Paulo S., Sá, João A., Falsarella, Ludmilla N., Amario, Michelle, Abieri, Maria Luiza, Pereira, Renato C., Amado-Filho, Gilberto M., Moura, Rodrigo L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.08.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adaptation; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Climate; Climate change; Coral bleaching; Coral reefs; Corals; Fires; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Habitats; Heat stress; Heat tolerance; Heterotrophy; Life Sciences; Oceanography; Oceans; Offshore; Refugia; Shading; Species; Stress propagation; Taxonomy; Trends; Tropical climate; Turbidity; Mesophotic reefs; Southwestern South Atlantic; ENSO; Monitoring; Disturbance

Between 2014 and 2017, an unprecedented heat stress accumulated and propagated across the tropical oceans and resulted in the so-called Third Global Bleaching Event (TGBE). Information about the effects of the TGBE in marginal coral reef provinces are still scarce, but can be relevant to understand...