2018-12-062018-12-062004Naga 27(1-2): 49-53https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/2017Coral bleaching and subsequent mortality represent a major threat to the future health and productivity of coral reefs. However a lack of reliable data on occurrence, severity and other characteristics of bleaching events hampers research on the causes and consequences of this important phenomenon. This article describes a global protocol for monitoring coral bleaching events, which addresses this problem and can be used by people with different levels of expertise and resources.application/pdfCC BY 4.0Journal Article