Sentence examples for mortality of corals from inspiring English sources

Degradation and mortality of corals is increasing worldwide and is expected to have significant effects on coral reef fish; hence studies on these effects are essential.

In natural conditions, mass bleaching events can lead to high mortality of corals [45].

Therefore, partial and complete bleaching and partial and complete mortality of corals were combined as observations of bleaching and mortality, respectively.

This temperature event caused mass bleaching and mortality of corals; in some cases 50% of live coral cover was lost [25], [27].

Fine sediment often settles on Magnetic Island reefs during periods of calm weather, and can result in smothering and tissue mortality of corals if the sediment is not re-suspended during rough weather or removed by the coral itself [28], [66], [67].

Mass mortality of coral on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) has been associated with A. planci [15], bleaching [16], disease [17] and storms [7], [18].

The loss of Symbiodinium from corals, frequently referred to as "coral bleaching", sometimes results in the mass mortality of coral, and has occurred with increased frequency over the past two decades [2].

Ammonium enrichment at the same concentration as was used in this study (20 μM) resulted in increased mortality of coral larvae [ 80].

Because massive corals grow more slowly than branching corals, episodes of mass mortality of branching corals inhabited by algal gardeners may leave an enduring imprint on community structure, continuing long after the branching corals reestablish themselves and the damselfishes move back into them and away from their suboptimal microhabitats.

I myself can hardly bear the thought of stars, or begin to count the mortalities of coral.

For this method to be applicable, it is necessary to assume that mortality of the corals occurred as a direct consequence of the HEMI event that quarried the clast out of the living reef to produce the RPCB (see Discussion on hindrances to timing of past HEMI events section).