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Reproductive Synchrony in
Acropora Assemblages on Reefs of New Caledonia - Pacific Science
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 64, Number 3, July 2010
- pp. 405-412
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Despite a recent expansion in the geographical focus of studies on coral reproduction, there remain many regions in the Indo-Pacific, such as Melanesia, where research is limited. For example, although New Caledonia in southern Melanesia is home to the world’s second largest barrier reef, which has recently been given UNESCO World Heritage listing, almost nothing is known of the reproductive biology of the coral fauna there, in particular the timing of spawning. In this study we sampled