Pocillopora acuta
Names as reported by the authors; no accepted-taxon or specimen-identity claim.
These records describe traits and results under specific study conditions. They do not establish recommended aquarium settings.
Larval size, photochemical efficiency and survival are distinct endpoints. The May survival interaction must not be erased by broad discussion wording; this source population does not define an aquarium temperature target.
24 colonies from a thermally variable Taiwanese reef affected by warm power-plant effluent; twelve individual 14 L tanks per adult treatment. Measured control 26.2 ± 0.4 and heated 29.7 ± 0.3 degrees C (nominal 26 and 29.5). About 200 micromol photons m−2 s−1, 12:12 light:dark, commercial feeding three times weekly. March–May reproductive cycles; April and May pooled larvae crossed into independent recruitment temperature treatments, then followed nine weeks.
controlled captive experiment
Adult colonies randomized to temperature groups; larvae pooled by parent treatment/day, then split among recruitment tanks. Microscopy for size/survival, PAM for Fv/Fm; mixed-effects models.
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Larvae from heated adults were significantly smaller in April and May, but not March; April and May p-values were 0.013 and less than 0.001. Larval Fv/Fm did not differ between adult temperature treatments.
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Recruits from heated adults were smaller and had lower Fv/Fm in both recruitment months. Survival was unchanged in April, but in May recruits from heated adults had lower survival when settled warm than when settled at control temperature (p=0.004); there was no demonstrated generalized offspring-survival benefit from parental heating.
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Adult, larval and recruit outcomes are one parent–offspring study, not independent lines from separate populations.
Evidence family: study-pmc8550305
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McRae CJ, Huang WB, Fan TY, Côté IM. (2021). Effects of thermal conditioning on the performance of Pocillopora acuta adult coral colonies and their offspring. DOI: 10.1007/s00338-021-02123-9. © The Author(s) 2021Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-021-02123-9
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