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Abstract The reproductive ecology of two eastern Pacific zooxanthellate coral species was examined as part of a continuing series of studies relating bleaching/mortality events caused by the El NioSouthern Oscillation disturbance, and is described for study sites in Costa Rica, Panam, and the Galpagos Islands (Ecuador). This study deals with the sibling agariciid species Pavona varians and Pavona...
AbstractMontastraea annularis, M. faveolata, and M.franksi are three recently separated species that together dominate reefs of the tropical western Atlantic. Despite morphological, life-history, ecological and genetic differences, the legitimacy of their status as separate species has been questioned. This controversy stems from both the scarcity of unambiguous, diagnostic differences among them,...