The Impacts of Ex Situ Transplantation on the Physiology of the Taiwanese Reef-Building Coral Seriatopora hystrix
Figure 2
In situ versus ex situ physiology. Biopsies were removed from each of six Seriatopora hystrix colonies collected from the upwelling (Houbihu) and nonupwelling (Houwan) sites and analyzed for Symbiodinium density ((a)–(c)), areal chlorophyll a (chl-a) concentration ((d)–(f)), cell-specific chl-a concentration ((g)–(i)), and maximum dark-adapted quantum yield of photosystem II (; (j)–(l)) as described in the text. Comparisons between sites of origin in situ are shown in (a), (d), (g), and (j), while comparisons over time (in situ versus ex situ) are shown across both temperature treatments (stable (black circles connected to black squares with straight lines) and variable (black circles connected to black diamonds by dotted lines)) for Houbihu ((b), (e), (h), and (k)) and Houwan ((c), (f), (i), and (l)). In all panels, error bars represent standard error of the mean. Tukey’s honestly significant difference groups in (e), (f), (h), (i), (k), and (l) represent significant differences () in response to the interaction of sampling time and temperature treatment.
