Table 2.

Scleractinian coral species used in rarefaction analysis including modes of reproduction, number and locations of populations and loci sampled and the number of randomly sampled colonies required to retain 25, 50 and 90% of the allelic richness of the entire population and to retain the mean allelic richness (~8 alleles/locus) of an “average” coral population

Species	Sexual reproduction	Asexual propagation (impact on population structure)	No. of populations	No. of loci	No. of colonies
					25%	50%	90%	8 alleles/locus
Acropora palmata	Hermaphroditic broadcast spawner	Fragmentation (occasionally significant)	9a	4	3	7–10	30–35	7
Montastraea cavernosa	Gonochoric broadcast spawner	Fission (not significant)	5b	5	2	5–10	30–35	10–15
Montastraea faveolata	Hermaphroditic broadcast spawner	Fission (not significant)	4c	5	2–3	8–9	35–40	10–15
Pocillopora damicornis	Hermaphroditic brooder (self-fertilization occasionally significant)	Fragmentation, larval production (occasionally significant)	2d	7	1	3–4	30	>50

^aBelize (4), Mexico (2), Panama (2), Puerto Rico (1)

^bBahamas (1), Florida (2), Bermuda (2)

^cBelize (4)

^dFiji (2)