[Coral-List] coral traits

[Steve Palumbi]

Andrew, many many high hopes for you in this quest. We have been searching for solid tradeoffs between heat tolerance ability and other coral fitness traits and have been unable to resolve them very well. One published data set shows a complex tradeoff between heat adapted and non-adapted genotypes(Bay, Rachael A., and Stephen R. Palumbi. "Transcriptome predictors of coral survival and growth in a highly variable environment." Ecology and Evolution(2017).) But these effects were far smaller and far more nuanced than we were expecting. One of the problems is high local variation in fitness traits - growth, survival, etc - even among clones. This injects lots of noise.

Steve
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Stephen Palumbi
Harold A. Miller Professor of Marine Science
Director, Hopkins Marine Station
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> On Aug 9, 2017, at 12:18 AM, Baird, Andrew <andrew.baird at jcu.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Dear listers
> 
> My colleagues, Josh Madin, Kristen Precoda and Marah Hardt and I are looking at trade-offs among life history traits in Caribbean corals.
> 
> We are particularly interested in data on growth rates, skeletal density and polyp fecundity in the species listed below. If you know of any data, published or unpublished, please let us know. All data will be made public at coraltraits.org<http://coraltraits.org>
> 
> cheers
> 
> species
> 
> Acropora cervicornis
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> Acropora palmata
> 
> Agaricia agaricites
> 
> Agaricia tenuifolia
> 
> Stephanocoenia intersepta
> 
> Dichocoenia stokesi
> 
> Eusmilia fastigiata
> 
> Meandrina meandrites
> 
> Orbicella annularis
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> Orbicella faveolata
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> Orbicella franksi
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> Montastraea cavernosa
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> Colpophyllia natans
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> Diploria labyrinthiformis
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> Favia fragum
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> Isophyllia rigida
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> Manicina areolata
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> Mussa angulosa
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> Mycetophyllia aliciae
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> Mycetophyllia lamarckiana
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> Pseudodiploria clivosa
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> Pseudodiploria strigosa
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> Scolymia cubensis
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> Oculina diffusa
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> Madracis decactis
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> Madracis mirabilis
> 
> Porites astreoides
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> Porites furcata
> 
> Siderastrea siderea
> 
> 
> 
> Professor Andrew Baird
> ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
> James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811
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