Experimental Bleaching of a Reef-Building Coral Using a Simplified Recirculating Laboratory Exposure System

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<tspan style="font-size: 12.50px; " x="6.2515001" y="0">6</tspan>
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</svg>C; grey square: 26 to <svg height="11.0375" id="M58" style="vertical-align:-0.17555pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 20.200001 11.0375" width="20.200001" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
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</svg>C ramp) and three solar radiation treatments (low, medium, high). <svg height="10.475" id="M59" style="vertical-align:-0.99066pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 12.0375 10.475" width="12.0375" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
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Figure 6

Figure 6: Experimental Bleaching of a Reef-Building Coral Using a Simplified Recirculating Laboratory Exposure System 