[Coral-List] pocillopora damicornis settlement rates
Wendy Chen
taz9911 at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 5 21:40:43 EST 2004
Hi! I'm a grad student in Guam working on toxicity studies with
pocillopora damicornis larvae. I'm having some trouble with my
controls. I'm settling out larvae in glassware with biofilm on it. The
glassware was conditioned by placing it in flowing seawater from 2-4
days to allow the biofilm to develop. My problem is that sometimes I
get very high rates of settlement from 70-100% and then other months,
I get 3-15% settlement. All the experiments are run exactly the same,
but yet I get a lot of variability. So I was wondering if anyone else
has some experience with dealing with pocillopora damicornis
settlement or if you can direct me to some references. I only have a
Hodgson paper from 1972 and a more recent one from Taiwan. Any help
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Wendy Chen
aka Woon Jaye Chen
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