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40-years of cyclic disturbance / recoveries of coral communities compared with trajectories of coral communities at American Samoa

2025-12-04

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> Cyclones, <italic>Acanthaster</italic> outbreaks, major heat-stress events, a tsunami and other disturbances have made American Samoa a challenging environment for scleractinian corals. Diseases have been present for decades. Nevertheless, living coral cover is now significantly greater than during the 17 previous surveys dating back to 1982. Although increasing coral cover resulted...

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Literature Corpus work: 2c466cb9-b174-5d4c-8a27-dd33d04e58a5
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8217262/v1

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