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Predicting Coral Recruitment in Palau’s Complex Reef Archipelago

Reproduction and recruitment are key processes that replenish marine populations. Here we use the Palau archipelago, in the western Pacific Ocean, as a case study to examine scales of connectivity and to determine whether an oceanographic model, incorporating the complex reef architecture, is a usef...

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Autores principales: Golbuu, Yimnang, Wolanski, Eric, Idechong, Jacques Wasai, Victor, Steven, Isechal, Adelle Lukes, Oldiais, Noelle Wenty, Idip, David, Richmond, Robert H., van Woesik, Robert
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3509094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23209842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050998
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author Golbuu, Yimnang
Wolanski, Eric
Idechong, Jacques Wasai
Victor, Steven
Isechal, Adelle Lukes
Oldiais, Noelle Wenty
Idip, David
Richmond, Robert H.
van Woesik, Robert
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Wolanski, Eric
Idechong, Jacques Wasai
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description Reproduction and recruitment are key processes that replenish marine populations. Here we use the Palau archipelago, in the western Pacific Ocean, as a case study to examine scales of connectivity and to determine whether an oceanographic model, incorporating the complex reef architecture, is a useful predictor of coral recruitment. We tested the hypothesis that the reefs with the highest retention also had the highest densities of juvenile coral density from 80 field sites. Field comparisons showed a significant correlation between the densities of juvenile Acropora colonies and total larval recruitment derived from the model (i.e., calculated as the sum of the densities of larvae that self-seeded and recruited from the other reefs in the archipelago). Long-distance larval imports may be too infrequent to sustain coral populations, but are critical for recovery in times of extreme local stress.
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spelling pubmed-35090942012-12-03 Predicting Coral Recruitment in Palau’s Complex Reef Archipelago Golbuu, Yimnang Wolanski, Eric Idechong, Jacques Wasai Victor, Steven Isechal, Adelle Lukes Oldiais, Noelle Wenty Idip, David Richmond, Robert H. van Woesik, Robert PLoS One Research Article Reproduction and recruitment are key processes that replenish marine populations. Here we use the Palau archipelago, in the western Pacific Ocean, as a case study to examine scales of connectivity and to determine whether an oceanographic model, incorporating the complex reef architecture, is a useful predictor of coral recruitment. We tested the hypothesis that the reefs with the highest retention also had the highest densities of juvenile coral density from 80 field sites. Field comparisons showed a significant correlation between the densities of juvenile Acropora colonies and total larval recruitment derived from the model (i.e., calculated as the sum of the densities of larvae that self-seeded and recruited from the other reefs in the archipelago). Long-distance larval imports may be too infrequent to sustain coral populations, but are critical for recovery in times of extreme local stress. Public Library of Science 2012-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3509094/ /pubmed/23209842 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050998 Text en © 2012 Golbuu et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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van Woesik, Robert
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