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Switch between Morphospecies of Pocillopora Corals.
The American naturalist - 1 Sept 2015
Paz-García David A, Hellberg Michael E, García-de-León Francisco J, Balart Eduardo F
Abstract excerpt
Pocillopora corals are the main reef builders in the eastern tropical Pacific. The validity of Pocillopora morphospecies remains under debate because of disagreements between morphological and genetic data. To evaluate the temporal stability of morphospecies in situ, we monitored the shapes of individual colonies in three communities in the southern Gulf of California for 44 months. Twenty-three percent of tagged...
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