Targeted research on coral bleaching and climate change improving mitigating responses

IOC-GEF/WB Working Group on Coral Bleaching and Local Ecological Responses


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  GEF/World Bank Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building
 
  What is coral bleaching?
 
 


 

 

Project documents:

Announcement: European International Society for Reef Studies (ISRS) meeting in Bremen, Germany, September 19-22 2006 with participation of the bleaching group

Ten members of Bleaching Targeted Research Group involved in oral presentations at session C4 "Thermal Biology of Coral Reefs" at Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) meeting in Canterbury, UK, April 3-7 2006; click here to see the abstracts

Eight new postdoctoral positions available at ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies Sept 2005

IOC supported training workshop for Indonesian students July 29th 2005

Summary BTRG Core Group Meeting 26th May 2005, Puerto Morelos, Mexico

April 2005: Report on recent progress: IOC- UNESCO-World Bank Working Group on Coral Bleaching and Related Ecological Factors

Initial Planning meeting, executive summary, April 2001

'Understanding Coral Bleaching Across Four Oceans', Draft workplan, Dec 2001

Heron Island workshop, Great Barrier Reef: Research activities and seminar proceedings,Feb 2002

CBD Abstract: Addressing CBD's Specifc Workplan on Coral Bleaching, (SBSTTA 8 Extended abstract, Feb 2003)

CBD Poster (SBSTTA 8, Feb 2003)

Project publications:

Werner U, Bird P, Wild C, Ferdelman T, Polerecky L, Eickert G, Johnstone R, Hoegh-Guldberg O, deBeer (2006): "Spatial patterns of aerobic and anaerobic mineralization rates and oxygen penetration dynamics in coral reef sediments"
(Marine Ecology Progress Series, 309: 93- 105)

Wild C, et al. (2005): "Benthic metabolism and degradation of natural particulate organic matter in carbonate and silicate reef sands of the Northern Red Sea"
(Marine Ecology Progress Series, 298: 69- 78)

Lesser MP (2004): "Experimental biology of coral reef ecosystems"
(Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 300: 217- 252
)

LaJeunesse, Todd C, Loh W, van Woesik R, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Schmidt G, Fitt WK (2003): Low symbiont diversity in southern Great Barrier Reef corals relative to those of the Caribbean (Limnology & Oceanography, 48(5): 2046-2054)

Nature, Vol 45, 28 Feb 2002: "Reef under threat from 'bleaching' outbreak"

Hoegh-Guldberg, O: Coral Reefs in a Century of Rapid Environmental Change (Symbiosis, in press)

Fine, M and Hoegh-Guldberg, O: Tolerance of endolithic algae to elevated temperature and light in the coral Montipora monasteriata from the southern Great Barrier Reef (Journal of Experimental Biology, submitted)

Hoegh-Guldberg, O, Fine, M, Skirving, W, Johnstone, R, Dove, S and Strong, A: Coral bleaching following wintry weather (Limnology and Oceanography, submitted).

R.P. Cooney, O.Pantos, M.D.Le-Tissier and J.C. Bythell: 'Comparison of the molecular microbiology of black band disease in corals between the Great Barrier Reef and Caribbean' (submitted)

 

Furhter reading:

Hughes et al.: "Climate change, human impacts and the resilience of coral reefs", Science, 301, Aug 2003