Genetic Structure is Stronger Across Human-Impacted Habitats than Among Islands in the Coral Porites lobata
Whitlow W. L. Au: July 31, 1940 – February 12, 2020
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April 15, 2020Genetic Structure is Stronger Across Human-Impacted Habitats than Among Islands in the Coral Porites lobata
A new study by Kaho Tisthammer, Zac Forsman, Rob Toonen, and Robert Richmond was recently published in PeerJ. Their paper focused on how human-induced environmental stressors effect genetic compositions of coral reef populations here in Hawai‘i.
For more on their study, check out the press release articles from NSF, UH News, Science Daily, The Garden Island, EurekAlert!, and SOEST.
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The eight species of coral in the study are the most common coral species found in Hawai'i, and they make up 95% of the coral cover on Hawaiian reefs. Clockwise, from upper left to lower right: Pocillopora meandrina, Pocillopora acuta, Porites lobata, Porites evermanni, Porites compressa, Montipora flabellata, Montipora patula, and Montipora capitata
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