Experiment Degree Heating Week (eDHW) as a novel metric to reconcile and validate past and future global coral bleaching studies

Title: Experiment Degree Heating Week (eDHW) as a novel metric to reconcile and validate past and future global coral bleaching studies
Creator: Leggat, Willaim; Heron, Scott F.; Fordyce, Alexander; Suggett, David J.; Ainsworth, Tracy D.
Relation: Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 301, Issue 1 January 2022, no. 113919
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113919
Publisher: Elsevier
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2022
Description: Coral bleaching has increasingly impacted reefs worldwide over the past four decades. Despite almost 40 years of research into the mechanistic, physiological, ecological, biophysical and climatic drivers of coral bleaching, metrics to allow comparison between ecological observations and experimental simulations still do not exist. Here we describe a novel metric – experimental Degree Heating Week (eDHW) – with which to standardise the persistently variable thermal conditions employed across experimental studies of coral bleaching by modify the widely used Degree Heating Week (DHW) metric used in ecological studies to standardise cumulative heat loading.
Subject: coral; bleaching; climate change; sea surface temperature; experiment; DHW
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1462619
Identifier: uon:46512
Identifier: ISSN:0301-4797
Language: eng
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