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Coral bleaching in Andaman Sea – an indicator for climate change in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

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Title Coral bleaching in Andaman Sea – an indicator for climate change in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
 
Creator Mondal, Tamal
Raghunathan, C.
Venkataraman, K.
 
Subject Coral bleaching
Andaman Sea
Climate Change
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
 
Description 1945-1948
Andaman Sea is one of the highly productive seas
in the world. The western boundary of the Andaman Sea is bordering Andaman and
Nicobar Islands which harbours more than 400 species of scleractinian coral
with the formation of fringing reef along the continental shelf. Sclearctinians
corals and zooxanthallae (micro algae) are setting up a mutual symbiotic
relationship for the survival of each other. A fundamental niche is very much
required to maintain the above said relationship. Temperature is one of the
curators to make the niche sense. Abrupt rise in Surface Sea Temperature (28⁰
 
Date 2016-06-28T10:50:50Z
2016-06-28T10:50:50Z
2014-10
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/34549
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(10) [October 2014]