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

<table>Example of minimal mortality from AWS in a resilient <i>Acropora</i> species  (<i>A. abrotenoides</i>) in American Samoa.  (a) A colony affected by AWS in 2008 and (b) shows the same colony in 2009;  affected area circled.</table>

Journal of Marine Sciences

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Figure 2: Coral Diversity and the Severity of Disease Outbreaks: A Cross-Regional Comparison of <i>Acropora</i> White Syndrome in a Species-Rich Region (American Samoa) with a Species-Poor Region (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) 

Figure 2 | 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) 