©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.Experimental results testing Janzen-Connell hypothesis in brooding corals: whether juvenile corals experienced distance-dependent mortality near adult conspecifics.
Experiment testing Janzen-Connell hypothesis in brooding corals - whether juvenile corals experienced distance-dependent mortality near adult conspecifics.
To determine the spatial distribution of P. damicornis and S. hystrix at smaller scales, we conducted 2 m radius circular surveys around focal P. damicornis and S. hystrix colonies that i) were the largest colony of that species within 4 m (to reduce the effects of conspecifics), and ii) occurred where >75% of the substrate within 2 m was suitable habitat for P. damicornis and S. hystrix, again to equalize the likelihood of colonies occurring everywhere in the survey.
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Hay, M. (2015) Coral colony sizes and distribution on the Coral Coast of Viti Levu, Fiji in 2013 (Killer Seaweeds project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2015-08-12 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/564397 [access date]
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