Circatrigintan instead of lunar periodicity of larval release in a brooding coral species

Abstract Larval release by brooding corals is often assumed to display lunar periodicity. Here, we show that larval release of individual Stylophora pistillata colonies does not comply with the assumed tight entrainment by the lunar cycle, and can better be classified as a circatrigintan pattern. Th...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bart Linden, Jef Huisman, Baruch Rinkevich
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
Subjects:
R
Q
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f6ee0d836bc44c60aa6fb7861b5ead29
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!