[Coral-List] Spawning times for the US Virgin Islands? (MelissaKeyes)

[Szmant, Alina]

Hi Judy:
 
We have checked for Montastraea faveolata spawn for the last 3 nights (Aug 14 to 16) here in La Parguera (nights 6-8 after full moon), and got only a dribble from a few colonies.  Ernesto Weil has documented major tissue loss since last fall's bleaching event which lasted into the spring.  The corals only recently recovered from the bleaching, and there is a lot of yellow blotch disease.  We don't know whether they are waiting until the September cycle to release or they have reproductive failure this year.  Ernesto has some tissue samples we will examine for gonad formation.  This is the first time since I've started doing this annual spawning work (1993) in which we have not seen Montastraea spawn profusely during this lunar phase.
 
On the good side, Montastraea cavernosa and Diploria strigosa both spawned fairly well, and as you wrote, the Acropora palmata spawned profusely 2 nights in a row.
 
Regards,
 
Alina (on her way to bed...)
 
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From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov on behalf of Judith Lang/Lynton Land
Sent: Wed 8/16/2006 9:16 PM
To: Jack Sobel
Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Spawning times for the US Virgin Islands? (MelissaKeyes)



Oh gracious!
Alina Szmant, Doctor Caribbean Coral Spawning Expert Extraordinaire, 
emailed me from the field in Puerto Rico on April 15th to say:
"Acropora spawned over the past 3-4 nights depending on where you 
were, and Montastrea should spawn over the next 2-3 nights.  We are 
in PR this summer.  More when I get a chance."

Suspect she's much too busy just now to get a chance.
Judy



On Aug 16, 2006, at 5:20 PM, Jack Sobel wrote:

> Hi Melissa.  Did you get a response(s) to your email below?  If so,
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> 3. Spawning times for the US Virgin Islands? (Melissa Keyes)
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> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:47:01 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Melissa Keyes <mekvinga at yahoo.com>
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> Hello, Listers,
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>   If anyone can furnish expected dates and times for this year's coral
> spawnings, especially for Acropora palmata and Dendrogyra cylindus, I
> would be very grateful.
>
>   Thank you in advance,
>
>   Melissa Keyes
>
>   St Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Caribbean
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