Coral Diversity and the Severity of Disease Outbreaks: A Cross-Regional Comparison of Acropora White Syndrome in a Species-Rich Region (American Samoa) with a Species-Poor Region (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands)

Figure 1

Mean size class structure of Acropora colonies within transects at the Acropora white syndrome outbreak sites in American Samoa and the northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Two 25 × 2 m belt transects were surveyed at each site.