Dataset: Effect of distance between coral lesions on coral linear extension from experiments in Moorea, French Polynesia from May, 2013 through May, 2014

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.777212.1Version 1 (2019-09-20)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Hamman (University of Georgia)

Contact: Rebecca Atkins (University of Georgia)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Mathew Biddle (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Spatial patterns of coral-vermetid interactions: short-term effects and long-term consequences (Vermetids_Corals)


Abstract

Experimental corals were artificially damaged using a waterpik with lesion centroids separated by 1.2cm and 3.5cm, and then dyed with Alizarin S. After 1 year, corals were bisectioned, photographed and linear extension measured using Image J at each polyp’s growth lines.

Experimental corals were artificially damaged using a waterpik with lesion centroids separated by 1.2cm and 3.5cm, and then dyed with Alizarin S.  After 1 year, corals were bisectioned, photographed and linear extension measured using Image J at each polyp’s growth lines.


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