How the 2016 bleaching altered the shape of the northern Great Barrier Reef
- Written by Selina Ward, Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
Staghorn and tabular corals suffered mass die-offs, robbing many individual reefs of their characteristic shapes.ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies/ Mia HoogenboomIn 2016 the Great Barrier Reef suffered unprecedented mass coral bleaching – part of a global bleaching event that dwarfed its predecessors in 1998 and 2002. This was...