Article
Failure to respond to a coral disease outbreak: Potential costs and consequences
2019-07-16
Abstract excerpt
A coral disease with white plague-like signs was observed near Virginia Key, Florida, in September 2014. The disease outbreak directly followed a regional high temperature coral-bleaching event. Now called stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), it has spread the length of the Florida Reef Tract from Key West to Martin County, a distance of about 450 km. Recently, the disease has also been observed at a number of...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ecd7c7f8-4686-565e-915f-1ee7448430ae
- DOI
- 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27860v2
