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Fine-scale thermal stress heterogeneity decouples bleaching from mortality across a Caribbean fringing reef

2026-08-20

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> Marine heatwaves are becoming more severe, yet reef outcomes vary dramatically at local scales. We document the biological consequences of the 2023 marine heatwave, the most intense on record, across the Puerto Morelos fringing reef, Mexico, where 13 sites within 40 km experienced nearly twofold variation in accumulated thermal stress. Repeated surveys across increasing-stress, peak-s...

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Literature Corpus work: c39ee8c6-a17c-5bdc-8d1e-e4fc0a078edc
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9986877/v1

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