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 3
Example of complete mortality from AWS in a highly susceptible Acropora species (A. clathrata) in American Samoa. (a) The colony affected by AWS in 2008 and (b) shows the same colony in 2009.