
Malvan Marine Sanctuary (MMS) in Maharashtra, along the Arabian sea coast has been bestowed with good amount of corals. Because of the elevated sea surface temperature, high intensity of coral bleaching (70.93±4.53%) was witnessed inside MMS during December 2015 which killed 8.38±0.91% of corals. Totally 11 genera of corals were found bleached which are Pavona, […]