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- Title
Corals on the move: morphological and reproductive strategies of reef flat coralliths.
- Authors
Roff, G.
- Abstract
The article provides information related to the morphological and reproductive strategies of reef flat coralliths. It relates that coralliths are free-living scleractinian corals of subspheroidal growth form that exist on the shallow inter-reef and reef flat environments. It mentions that reef flat corallith assemblages are dominated by subspheroidal branching and submassive morphologies formed exclusively through asexual fragmentation of parent colonies. It alSo notes that high rates of clonal dispersal through corallith formation represent a key reproductive strategy for branching reef flat corals, which allows redistribution of colonies to adjacent regions.
- Subjects
CORALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL reefs &; islands; REEFS; CORAL reef biology; MARINE organism reproduction; MARINE biology; AQUATIC biology; MARINE sciences
- Publication
Coral Reefs, 2008, Vol 27, Issue 2, p343
- ISSN
0722-4028
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00338-007-0344-5