Article
Hurricane-driven patterns of clonality in an ecosystem engineer: the Caribbean coral Montastraea annularis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Foster Nicola L, Baums Iliana B, Sanchez Juan A, Paris Claire B, Chollett Iliana, Agudelo Claudia L, Vermeij Mark J A, Mumby Peter J
Abstract excerpt
K-selected species with low rates of sexual recruitment may utilise storage effects where low adult mortality allows a number of individuals to persist through time until a favourable recruitment period occurs. Alternative methods of recruitment may become increasingly important for such species if the availability of favourable conditions for sexual recruitment decline under rising anthropogenic disturbance and...
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