Do Corals Lie About Their Age? Some Demographic Consequences of Partial Mortality, Fission, and Fusion

Terry P. Hughes; Jeremy B. C. Jackson

doi:10.1126/science.209.4457.713

August 8, 1980Science

Do Corals Lie About Their Age? Some Demographic Consequences of Partial Mortality, Fission, and Fusion

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Population dynamics of corals and other colonial animals are complicated by their modular construction and growth. Partial colony mortality, colony fission, and colony fusion distort any simple relationship between size and age among reef corals.

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