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. 2011 Dec 14;6(12):e28461. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028461

Table 1. Number of coral colonies (n), colony size (maximum diameter in cm), percent colony mortality and juvenile (colonies <5 cm) contribution to the total number of colonies of each species in the coral-ground assemblage of Xcaret in 2005.

Species Code n Diameter (cm) Partial mortality (%) Juvenile
mean (± SD) mean (± SD) contribution (%)
Acropora cervicornis Acer 3 21.0 (1.7) 8.9 (15.4) -
Agaricia agaricites Aaga 255 9.2 (5.5) 10.2 (17.7) 22.7
Agaricia fragilis Afra 1 11.1 (-) 0 -
Agaricia humilis Ahum 3 11.2 (5.1) 0 -
Agaricia tenuifolia Aten 108 13.1 (10.9) 4.0 (11.3) 9.3
Diploria clivosa Dcli 1 30.8 (-) 0 -
D. labyrinthiformis Dlab 9 26.0 (11.4) 5.6 (8.4) -
D. strigosa Dstr 104 14.7 (9.8) 11.2 (16.3) 21.2
Dichocoenia stokesii Dsto 72 8.5 (4.4) 23.7 (27.6) 29.2
Isophyllastrea rigida Irig 3 4.9 (3.9) 6.4 (11.2) 66.7
Leptoseris cucullata Lcuc 4 10.0 (5.8) 0 -
Madracis decactis Mdec 22 5.4 (3.6) 23.7 (27.6) 50.0
Meandrina meandrites Mmea 13 16.3 (9.5) 6.6 (10.8) 15.4
Montastraea annularis Mann 5 14.7 (14.4) 35.5 (40.0) 20.0
M. faveolata Mfav 22 13.4 (6.9) 27.1 (26.5) 9.1
M. cavernosa Mcav 64 15.6 (10.2) 23.8 (29.6) 10.9
Porites astreoides Past 161 5.9 (3.5) 12.0 (19.3) 47.8
P. divaricata Pdiv 41 5.1 (4.1) 9.5 (19.2) 63.4
P. furcata Pfur 6 8.1 (4.2) 7.6 (8.4) 33.3
P. porites Ppor 94 10.5 (9.0) 8.8 (16.6) 30.9
Siderastrea radians Srad 10 2.6 (1.1) 0 90.0
S. siderea Ssid 556 7.6 (7.0) 22.4 (23.7) 52.0
Stephanocoenia intercepta Sint 24 4.8 (3.5) 18.6 (26.7) 66.7
Total 1581 9.2 (6.0) 15.8 (22.2) 65.6