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FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
卷 3, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00179
关键词
coral morphology; gender growth rates; Eastern Tropical Pacific; massive corals; coral calcification
资金
- CONACYT [262538]
- PROMEP project [220265]
- [P/PIFI-2010-14MSU0010Z-10]
- [PAPIIT IN209014]
Corals display different growth forms as an adaptive response to both local and global environmental conditions. Despite the importance of morphologic variability on corals, growth and calcification rates of different coral morphotypes have been poorly recorded in the Eastern Pacific. The purpose of this study was to compare annual extension rate (cm yr(-1)), skeletal density (g cm(-3)), calcification rate (g cm(-2) yr(-1)), and tissue thickness (mm) of males and females colonies in three different morphotypes of the common reef-building coral Porites lobate; columnar, massive, and free-living (corallith) forms. The results show significant differences in all four-growth parameters between morphotypes over a 6-year interval, and also differences between males and females in most morphotypes. Massive colonies presented 15-33% faster annual rates compared with columnar and free-living. Male colonies showed 30-40% faster annual rates than females for both columnar and corallith morphologies. These data exhibit the extensive plasticity of this species and highlight the fact that each morphotype x gender group produced a different physiological response to environmental conditions. Therefore, these information reveal that P. lobate from the Eastern Tropical Pacific develops different morphologies to allow it to maintain coral species population, characteristics that enhance the species possibility to further its distribution across the reef-framework.
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