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dc.contributor.authorDornelas, Maria
dc.contributor.authorMadin, Joshua S.
dc.contributor.authorBaird, Andrew H.
dc.contributor.authorConnolly, Sean R.
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-23T00:33:11Z
dc.date.available2018-03-23T00:33:11Z
dc.date.issued2017-03-29
dc.identifier.citationDornelas , M , Madin , J S , Baird , A H & Connolly , S R 2017 , ' Allometric growth in reef-building corals ' , Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol. 284 , no. 1851 , 20170053 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0053en
dc.identifier.issn0962-8452
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 249748503
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 7c75a0ee-e016-461d-a7b1-be9559339f78
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85016108806
dc.identifier.otherPubMed: 28330923
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000397884000021
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/13004
dc.descriptionFunding: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and the Australian Research Council for fellowship and research support; Scottish Funding Council (MASTS, grant reference HR09011) and the ERC project bioTIME.en
dc.description.abstractPredicting demographic rates is a critical part of forecasting the future of ecosystems under global change. Here, we test if growth rates can be predicted from morphological traits for a highly diverse group of colonial symbiotic organisms: scleractinian corals. We ask whether growth is isometric or allometric among corals, and whether most variation in coral growth rates occurs at the level of the species or morphological group. We estimate growth as change in planar area for 11 species, across five morphological groups and over 5 years. We show that coral growth rates are best predicted from colony size and morphology rather than species. Coral size follows a power scaling law with a constant exponent of 0.91. Despite being colonial organisms, corals have consistent allometric scaling in growth. This consistency simplifies the task of projecting community responses to disturbance and climate change.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesen
dc.rights© 2017, the Author(s). This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org / https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0053en
dc.subjectAllometryen
dc.subjectMorphologyen
dc.subjectScalingen
dc.subjectScleractiniaen
dc.subjectTraitsen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectSH Aquaculture. Fisheries. Anglingen
dc.subjectBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)en
dc.subjectEnvironmental Science(all)en
dc.subjectImmunology and Microbiology(all)en
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectSDG 13 - Climate Actionen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.subject.lccSHen
dc.titleAllometric growth in reef-building coralsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Research Councilen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Fish Behaviour and Biodiversity Research Groupen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotlanden
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0053
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2018-03-22
dc.identifier.grantnumber250189en


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