[Coral-List] Spawning Flower Garden Banks
EricHugo at aol.com
EricHugo at aol.com
Tue Aug 26 14:35:49 EDT 2003
Hi GP:
In addition to the report you provided the list, I'd also throw in two
comments.
Regarding the "lackluster" spawning this year, I believe there was some
specualtion that the minimal hurricane that passed nearby days prior to the
spawning may have created conditions that factored into the reduction in the numbers
and timing of corals during this spawning event. I am curious if other
researchers have had similar observations in the past if a storm had occurred
immediately or recently prior to a spawning event.
Second, that the statement "branching corals of the genus Acropora are not
present" is only partly correct given the single colony discovered of A. palmata
earlier this year. In fact, having tagged and photographed it starting from
its discovery (James Wiseman), in May, and now again in August, it appears to
have grown in area at least 200% (GP, sending them to you and Emma via CD
tomorrow).
Eric Borneman
University of Houston
Dept. of Biology
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