High coral cover amid intense heatwaves and bleaching? Here’s how both can be true on the Great Barrier Reef
- Written by Daniela Ceccarelli, Reef Fish Ecologist, Australian Institute of Marine Science
Wood Reef, near Cape York, suffered no bleaching last summerNeal Cantin/AIMS, Author providedIt was another difficult summer on the Great Barrier Reef. A serious marine heatwave caused the fifth mass coral bleaching event since 2016. Intense rain from Cyclone Jasper washed huge volumes of freshwater and sediment onto corals closer to shore, and...





