Allee effects limit coral fertilization success
Peter J. Mumby, Greta Sartori, Elizabeth Buccheri, Cinzia Alessi, Hannah Allan, Christopher Doropoulos, Geraldine Rengiil, Gerard Ricardo · 2024
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Description
Peter Mumby and a team of co-authors measure how distance between corals decides whether their eggs get fertilized. Their study appeared in twenty twenty-four. As climate change thins reefs, colonies sit farther apart, and sparse parents may fail to breed.
The team tracked single colonies of a common table coral in Palau. When a mate stood within half a meter, about thirty percent of eggs were fertilized. At ten meters the share fell below ten percent, and by fifteen to twenty meters it was near zero. The distance to the nearest mate predicted success better than overall density. Wind on a later spawning night cut success almost threefold. Overall, the corals reached about seventy-one percent of their possible breeding.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Peter J. Mumby, Greta Sartori, Elizabeth Buccheri, Cinzia Alessi, Hannah Allan, Christopher Doropoulos, Geraldine Rengiil, Gerard Ricardo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |