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. 2022 Mar 23;10:e13112. doi: 10.7717/peerj.13112

Figure 2. Coral tree and fragment growth.

Figure 2

(A) Coral tree at HIMB with tree number, branch number, coral ramet identification, and suspended corals characteristic of the method. Due to the shallow depth (4 m), the trees were shorter than typical coral trees anchored in deeper water and the number of corals per branch doubled from three to six. (B) Initial size of M. capitata ramet beginning in Jan/Feb 2019, (C) mid-point size Aug/Sept 2019, and (D) final size Feb/Mar 2020 of the same ramet. Note that the coral more than doubled in size as did its weight. Photo credits: author.