Dataset: stony coral distribution - 2m circles
Deployment: Fiji_2013

Colony sizes and distances from each other in 2-meter circles, Fiji 2013
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Principal Investigator: 
Mark Hay (Georgia Institute of Technology, GA Tech)
Contact: 
Dr David Gibbs (Georgia Institute of Technology, GA Tech)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Current State: 
Restricted
Version: 
2015-08-12
Version Date: 
2015-08-12
Description

Experiment testing Janzen-Connell hypothesis in brooding corals - whether juvenile corals experienced distance-dependent mortality near adult conspecifics.

To determine the spatial distribution of P. damicornis and S. hystrix at smaller scales, we conducted 2 m radius circular surveys around focal P. damicornis and S. hystrix colonies that i) were the largest colony of that species within 4 m (to reduce the effects of conspecifics), and ii) occurred where >75% of the substrate within 2 m was suitable habitat for P. damicornis and S. hystrix, again to equalize the likelihood of colonies occurring everywhere in the survey.

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