WAMSI Node 1.2.1 - Rates of Ecological Processes (Growth Rates of Corals)

Updated: 2016-06-20

Thirty hard corals of the species Plesiastrea versipora have been collected from Marmion Reef for sectioning and x-ray analysis to provide measurements of growth. These data will be combined with coral population structures collected in 2006-2007 invertebrate surveys, enabling us to independently validate models of patch dynamics (including patch longevity) using estimated coral ages.