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Ecological Impacts of the 2015/16 El Niño in the Central Equatorial Pacific

Summary/Abstract

Coral reef and seabird communities in the central equatorial Pacific were disrupted by record-setting sea surface temperatures, linked to an anthropogenically forced trend, during the 2015/16 El Niño.

Russel E. Brainard et al., Ecological Impacts of the 2015/16 El Niño in the Central Equatorial Pacific, in BAMS 2016

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January 2018
Russell E. Brainard, Thomas Oliver, Michael J. McPhaden, Anne Cohen, Roberto Venegas, Adel Heenan, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel, Randi Rotjan, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Elizabeth Flint, Susan A. Hunter
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Peer-reviewed Study
Central Equatorial Pacific Ocean
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