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- Title
Flesh or bone? Quantifying small-scale coral morphology using with-tissue and without-tissue techniques.
- Authors
Todd, P. A.; Ladle, R. J.; Lewin-Koh, N. J. I.; Chou, L. M.
- Abstract
The quantification of small-scale coral morphology using tissue-free skeletons often requires colonies, or colony sections, to be removed from the reef. This undesirable destruction can be reduced by using a with-tissue technique based on photographic images of living corals. The results of this study indicate that with-tissue multivariate morphometric data contain similar information to skeleton-derived data and can help identify phenotypic plasticity in the massive coral Favia speciosa. With-tissue data can also be used to discern changes with time in individual polyps exposed to new environments.
- Subjects
CORALS; SKELETON; BONES; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; CORAL colonies
- Publication
Marine Biology, 2004, Vol 145, Issue 2, p323
- ISSN
0025-3162
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00227-004-1324-8