[Coral-List] John Claydon..branching coral growth rate

William Allison beliamall at dhivehinet.net.mv
Wed Mar 7 19:31:10 EST 2007


John,
Depending on what you have in mind, frequency of measurement could be an
issue. Tie overgrowth and branching growth can complicate the situation
fairly quickly. 
Bill

> From: hreyes <hreyes at uabcs.mx>
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:51:52 -0700
> To: coral-list <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>, Gene Shinn
> <eshinn at marine.usf.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] John Claydon..branching coral growth rate
> 
> john, we are using plastic tie-wraps to measure coral growth in pocillopora
> from the gulf of california (place the tie near the base of a branch and
> measure distance from the edge of the plastic to the tip of the coral, return
> later, repeat and record the difference). just to be sure we compared the data
> with alizarin-marked branches and they work fine!
> 
> Hector Reyes
> UABCS, La Paz
> 
> 
> 
>> ===== Original Message From Gene Shinn <eshinn at marine.usf.edu> =====
>> Dear John, If I was doing it today I would use tie-wraps..They didn't
>> exist in the 1960s..along with a lot of other things that have
>> complicated our lives. Gene
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