Coral life history differences determine the refugium potential of a remote Caribbean reef
Sarah Davies, Marie E Strader, Johnathan T Kool, Carly D Kenkel, Mikhail V Matz
The paper evaluates how differences in coral life history traits affect the refugium potential of the Flower Garden Banks, showing that long pelagic larval duration corals can act as larval sources for other reefs.
bioRxiv · Jul 8, 2016Ecology