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| June 24: Multiple genera still bleached in the lagoon. |
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June 24: Not recovered everywhere. Corals in the lagoon
are still bleached.
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June 17: Recovery! The same coral that we saw bleached
on May 26 has recovered, notice the green color.
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| June 6: Partial mortality |
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June 6: The lower portion of this colony is bleached, the top
portion is dead and covered with algae (the outlines of corallites are still visible, suggesting recent mortality), and only a small portion of living and unbleached coral remains. |
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June 6: Some of this colony is still alive and unbleached,
while the rest of the colony is recently dead and covered
with algae.
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June 6: Tri-color coral. From left to right: living coral,
living coral that is bleached, recently dead coral beginning
to be covered by algae.
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| June 6: More species beginning to bleach. |
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June 6: Beached, but not dead. Bleached Porites polyps
extending tentacles in search of food
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| June 3: Bleaching in branching coral |
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| June 3: First signs of bleaching in genera other than Porites |
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June 3: First signs of coral mortality: a recently dead Porites
colony beginning to be covered with algae
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| June 2: No bleaching on the forereef |
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Another coral that began bleaching between May 26 and
June 1
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June 1: Onset of bleaching in a colony that was not
bleached on May 26
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| May 31: A huge colony bleaching, partially covered by mucus |
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| Living coral polyps are visible underneath shedding mucus |
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| A mucus layer shedding off a massive Porites colony |
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More Porites bleached by May 30, first observe mucus
layers shedding off coral colonies
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| Bleaching first observed on May 26, 2014 |
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