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Title: Bleached Coral, Maldives
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A boulder coral (Porites sp.) bleached in the 1998 Maldives bleaching event (the first recorded mass bleaching event in the Indian Ocean), on a reef. North Male Atoll, Maldives. Indian Ocean
- Alexander Mustard
- Anthozoans: Anthozoa
- bleaching
- climate change
- Cnidarians: Cnidaria
- conservation
- coral reef
- global warming
- hard coral
- Indian Ocean
- Invertebrates
- Maldives
- Marine Life
- Porites sp.
- Stony Corals: Scleractina: Scleractinia
- tropical
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