Tradeoffs to Thermal Acclimation: Energetics and Reproduction of a Reef Coral with Heat Tolerant Symbiodinium Type-D

Figure 1

Sampling design for the study of storage lipids (L), algal chlorophyll a content (C), symbiont densities (Z), and egg sizes and numbers (E) in colonies of Acropora millepora sampled before (grey bars = D, white bars = C2) and after (grey bars = unbleached, white bars = bleached) a bleaching event in February 2006 (shown as a thick line between January and February 2006).