Dataset: Sediment removal rates during experiment in which sedimentation was applied to treatment corals in Moorea, French Polynesia from June to August 2012 (Vermetids_Corals project)

Preliminary and in progressVersion 2017-10-05 (2017-10-05)Dataset Type:experimental

Principal Investigator: Julie Zill (University of Hawai'i)

Co-Principal Investigator: Michael A. Gil (University of California-Davis)

Co-Principal Investigator, Contact: Craig Osenberg (University of Georgia)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Mathew Biddle (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Spatial patterns of coral-vermetid interactions: short-term effects and long-term consequences (Vermetids_Corals)

A manipulative experiment to determine the growth rate of corals in the presence and absence of sediment and vermetids.

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General

Zill, J. A., Gil, M. A., & Osenberg, C. W. (2017). When environmental factors become stressors: interactive effects of vermetid gastropods and sedimentation on corals. Biology Letters, 13(3), 20160957. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0957
Methods

Jokiel, P., & Morrissey, J. (1993). Water motion on coral reefs: evaluation of the “clod card” technique . Marine Ecology Progress Series, 93, 175–181. doi:10.3354/meps093175
Methods

Shima, J. S., Osenberg, C. W., & Stier, A. C. (2010). The vermetid gastropod Dendropoma maximum reduces coral growth and survival. Biology Letters, 6(6), 815–818. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.0291
Methods

Smally, T. L. (1984). Possible effects of intraspecific competition on the population structure of a solitary vermetid mollusc. Marine ecology progress series. Oldendorf, 14(2), 139-144.