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Temperature and irradiance variability on the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea during the 2020 bleaching event

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Earth and environmental sciences.

Abstract

Heat and irradiance stressors are critical factors affecting coral reefs, especially during the summer season. In the present study, daily sea surface temperature (SST), degree heating weeks (DHWs), and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) remotely collected by NOAA CRW were assessed in three geographical sectors during the summer of 2020. The results indicated that SST had increased along a latitudinal thermal gradient from the north to the south. On the other hand, the overall accumulated heat stress above the usual maximum climatological SST did not decrease below 4°C-weeks in the three studied sectors and most of the heat stress was concentrated in the north. Associating with the pattern of the SST, the mean PAR levels had also increased from the north to the south by only one Einstein m-2 day-1. In the light of the present study, increases in the SST and PAR levels that have coincident with the 2020 bleaching pattern recorded at the Egyptian coast may synergistically threaten coral reefs at the southern coast. Moreover, although the accumulated heat stress exceeded the bleaching threshold (>4°C-weeks), it may still less severe to corals inhabiting the northern reefs.

DOI

10.21608/ajbas.2022.128337.1096

Keywords

Climate Change, Egypt, heat stress, irradiance, Red Sea

Authors

First Name

Muhammad

Last Name

Dosoky

MiddleName

Yusuf Abdoh

Affiliation

Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Port Said University, Port Said

Email

m_dosoky@sci.psu.edu.eg

City

Ismailia

Orcid

0000-0003-4121-1990

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Hanafy

MiddleName

Hassan

Affiliation

Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia

Email

hanafy@science.suez.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Ismail

Affiliation

Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia

Email

m.ismail@science.suez.edu.eg

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-

Orcid

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First Name

Fedekar

Last Name

Madkour

MiddleName

Fadel

Affiliation

Marine Science Department, Faculty of Science, Port Said University

Email

fedekarmadkour@ymail.com

City

Port Said

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Volume

3

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

35375

Issue Date

2022-07-01

Receive Date

2022-03-19

Publish Date

2022-07-01

Page Start

384

Page End

393

Online ISSN

2682-275X

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https://ajbas.journals.ekb.eg/article_230388.html

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Original Article

Type Code

947

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Publication Title

Alfarama Journal of Basic & Applied Sciences

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https://ajbas.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023