Settling in aggregation: Spatial planning consideration for brooding coral transplants

Aggregated larval co-settlement has been documented in myriad marine invertebrate taxa, shaping adult population structures. Still, kinship settlement patterns in brooding corals have not been studied in detail, especially under scenarios of enhanced larval assemblies. Employing two sets of ex-situ...

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Published in:Marine environmental research 2022-04, Vol.176, p.105612-105612, Article 105612
Main Authors: Shefy, Dor, Guerrini, Gabrielle, Marom, Nir, Shashar, Nadav, Rinkevich, Baruch
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aggregates
Aggregation
Allorecognition
Animals
Anthozoa
Biological fertilization
Chimerism
Clustering
Colonies
Computer Simulation
Coral Reefs
Corals
Ecological engineering
Environmental engineering
Fertilization
Juveniles
Larva
Larvae
Larval settlement
Life history
Marine invertebrates
Reef restoration
Restoration
Settlement
Simulation
Spatial planning
Stylophora pistillata
Surveys
Survival
Transplants
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Summary:Aggregated larval co-settlement has been documented in myriad marine invertebrate taxa, shaping adult population structures. Still, kinship settlement patterns in brooding corals have not been studied in detail, especially under scenarios of enhanced larval assemblies. Employing two sets of ex-situ experiments, planulae staining for kinship resolution and a computer random settlement simulation, we show that larval settlement of the coral Stylophora pistillata, a brooding species in the Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat, is mostly affected by the number of larval donors, and that larvae tend to aggregate (up to 50% tissue-contacts; distances
ISSN:0141-1136
1879-0291
DOI:10.1016/j.marenvres.2022.105612