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Joseph H. Connell, Terence P. Hughes, Carden C. Wallace, Jason E. Tanner, Kyle E. Harms, and Alexander M. Kerr. 2004. A long-term study of competition and diversity of corals. Ecological Monographs 74:179–210.

Appendix D. Results of the encounters between neighboring corals at the Exposed Pools, 2 m2, 1962–1989. For each interaction between a species pair, numbers are: row species wins/ column species wins/ ties.

                           

No. per species

%

Species

Number of Genets

3

17

11

20

16

21

7

34

32

39

15

99

5

Ties

Wins

Losses

Wins

Ties

3

Acropora austera

8

                         

8

70

1

99

10

17

Acropora intermedia

2

                         

0

8

0

100

0

20

Acropora millepora

2

       

0/1/0

0/0/1

             

1

4

1

80

17

16

Acropora hyacinthus

10

1/5/3

 

0/0/2

                   

12

62

15

82

13

21

Acropora nasuta

15

0/2/0

0/1/0

   

3/1/2

               

16

24

7

77

34

7

Acropora digitifera

8

0/1/0

     

3/5/1

1/2/0

 

0/0/1

         

5

22

9

71

14

34

Acropora valida

3

0/5/1

     

4/5/2

1/1/2

             

8

20

12

62

20

32

Acropora tenuis

8

0/1/0

0/1/0

     

0/2/2

             

7

5

4

56

44

39

Six other Acropora spp.

 

0/2/0

     

0/2/3

               

7

3

6

33

44

15

Acropora humilis

7

0/4/0

0/1/0

   

0/2/0

1/0/0

 

0/1/0

0/0/3

   

2/0/0

 

4

3

8

27

27

99

Pocillopora damicornis

44

0/17/1

0/1/0

0/1/0

0/3/0

0/15/0

0/4/2

0/5/2

0/5/3

0/2/0

0/1/1

     

23

3

56

5

28

5

Acropora cuneata

7

0/5/0

     

0/2/0

0/2/3

0/1/0

           

4

1

11

8

25

 

Five massive species

2

0/5/2

 

0/1/0

 

0/0/1

   

1/1/1

 

0/0/1

1/0/7

   

12

2

7

22

57

 

Soft coral species

5

0/3/0

     

0/2/0

0/1/0

     

0/1/1

 

1/0/2

 

2

1

7

12

20

118

Stylophora pistillata

5

0/0/1

 

0/2/1

 

0/1/2

0/1/2

 

0/1/0

 

0/0/1

 

1/0/1

 

8

1

5

20

57

101, 104

Porites species

18

0/9/0

0/4/0

0/1/0

 

0/3/0

0/1/1

0/1/1

0/1/0

0/2/1

0/1/0

 

0/2/3

0/1/0

6

0

26

0

19

85, 86

Montipora species

3

0/2/0

     

0/0/1

0/1/0

0/2/0

0/3/0

     

0/1/0

 

1

0

9

0

10

116

Seriatopora hystrix

4

       

0/3/0

0/1/0

   

0/0/1

     

0/0/1

2

0

4

0

33

 

Unidentified hard corals

41

0/3/0

   

0/1/0

0/18/0

0/4/0

0/6/0

0/5/0

0/1/0

 

0/0/1

0/0/1

 

2

0

38

0

5

 

TOTAL

192

                         

128

229

226

 

22



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