In situ observations of coral bleaching in the central Saudi Arabian Red Sea during the 2015/2016 global coral bleaching event

• Alison A. Monroe ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alison.monroe@kaust.edu.sa

  Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9372-4889

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• Maren Ziegler,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Anna Roik,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Marine Microbiology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel Düsternbrooker Weg 20, Kiel, Germany

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• Till Röthig,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, The Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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• Royale S. Hardenstine,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Madeleine A. Emms,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Thor Jensen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Christian R. Voolstra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Michael L. Berumen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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