Low regeneration of lesions produced by coring in Orbicella faveolata

The extraction of tissue-skeleton cores from coral colonies is a common procedure to study diverse aspects of their biology, water quality or to obtain environmental proxies. Coral species preferred for such studies in Caribbean reefs belong to the genera Orbicella. The long term effects of coring i...

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Main Authors: Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez, Adán Guillermo Jordán-Garza, Eric Jordán-Dahlgren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-01-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/1596.pdf