Table 1.
Sampling pattern among the five surveyed habitats.
| Habitat | Depth (m) | # Colonies | # Samples | # Fragments | # MLGs | # Clonal MLGs | # Clones | # Hetero colonies | Morphology (N) | Colony size | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA | EN | ST | ± SE (cm²) | |||||||||
| Patch | 0.82 | 10 | 5 | 50 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | — | — | 11 272 ± 8 822 |
| Fringing | 0.81 | 10 | 5 | 50 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | — | — | 8 976 ± 4 494 |
| Back | 0.74 | 8 | 5 | 40 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | — | 6 | 4 289 ± 3 111 |
| Upper | 5.90 | 13 | 5 | 65 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 6 | — | 2 | 11 | 29 749 ± 23 811 |
| Mid | 12.92 | 10 | 5 | 50 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 18 459 ± 11 107 |
| Total | — | 51 | — | 255 | 65 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 25 | 6 | 20 | 15 536 ± 15 917 |
#Colonies, number of colonies sampled; #Samples, number of samples within a single colony; #Fragments, total number of tissue-covered skeleton collected; #MLGs, number of detected multilocus genotypes; #Clonal MLGs, number of repeated multilocus genotypes (clonal genotypes); #Clones, number of clone mates; #Hetero colonies, number of genetically heterogeneous colonies; Morphology, number of colonies with a massive (MA), encrusting (EN) or sheet tree (ST) morphology and mean colony sizes are given for the 51 colonies sampled and ± SE for variation among colonies.