The 1997-1998 Mass Bleaching Event Around the World

Acknowledgements

Thanks go to all those people mentioned above who provided reports. Special thanks go to Al Strong who provides regular reports on sea surface temperatures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of USA, Jim Hendee who runs the NOAA coral e-mail listing, which has compiled many bleaching reports, and Barbara Brown who provided a summary from the International Society for Reef Studies, which was used as background for much of the Introduction.

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