[Coral-List] Request for Information re: resistance of Pocillopora meandrina to high seawater temperatures

[Gonzalo Pérez-Rosales Blanch]

Hi Lance and Hector, 

In Moorea, French Polynesia most Pocilloporas (P. meandrina and P. verrucosa) suffered a bit of heat stress during the bleaching of 2016 (not even the colonies turning white). So as far as I am concern, mortality was nearly 0 and now they are the two species that dominate Polynesian shallow water landscapes.
However, I don’t know to what extent we can interpret this as high thermal tolerance because bleaching was not severe in this region. 

I hope this results useful to you, 
Gonzalo

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Gonzalo PÉREZ-ROSALES BLANCH
Ph.D. Student, École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL 
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