Widespread coral bleaching and mass mortality during the 2023–2024 marine heatwave in Little Cayman

• Matthew L. Doherty ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dohertym@protonmail.com

  Affiliation School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6259-3006

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• Jack V. Johnson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Reef Ecology and Evolution Lab, Central Caribbean Marine Institute, Little Cayman Island, Cayman Islands

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• Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Reef Ecology and Evolution Lab, Central Caribbean Marine Institute, Little Cayman Island, Cayman Islands

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