About the Authors
- John F Bruno
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jbruno@unc.edu
Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Elizabeth R Selig
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Affiliation Curriculum in Ecology and Department of Marine Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Kenneth S Casey
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Affiliation National Oceanographic Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
- Cathie A Page
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Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Bette L Willis
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Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- C. Drew Harvell
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Affiliation Section of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Hugh Sweatman
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Affiliation Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Amy M Melendy
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
JFB, ERS, BLW, and CDH conceived the project. CAP and HS collected the disease and coral cover data. JFB, ERS, and KSC developed the temperature anomaly database. AMM analyzed the data with assistance from JFB. JFB, ERS, and AMM wrote the paper with assistance from KSC, CAP, BLW, and CDH.