An appraisal of methods used in coral recruitment studies

By C. Mundy. Coral reefs, 2000

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Abstract A new method for attaching individual artificial settlement plates directly to the reef surface using small stainless steel base plates is described. Recruitment of corals to settlement plates attached to the reef substratum and to steel mesh racks is compared. The effects of differences in depth, settlement plate angle, and local topography on recruitment of corals were also investigated. No significant difference in mean recruit density was found between settlement plates deployed using the two attachment methods. Small differences in depth and plate angle among replicate plates explained less than 6% of the variability in coral recruitment on replicate settlement plates. The direct-attachment method is less obtrusive, more cost and time efficient, and settlement plates can be deployed at precise locations. Additionally, because settlement plates are deployed individually rather than grouped on racks or frames, the direct-attachment method avoids complications associated with assumptions of independence implicit in most statistical procedures.

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Early post-settlement mortality and the structure of coral assemblages (2010, methodology): “To assess variation in settlement among stations, 20 unglazed terracotta tiles (11 × 11 × 1 cm) were deployed at each station following the direct attachment method (Mundy 2000).”
Running the Gauntlet: Inhibitory Effects of Algal Turfs on the Processes of Coral Recruitment (2010, methodology): “In March 2004, 40 terra-cotta coral settlement plates of 10 × 10 × 1 cm were deployed at each site (methods of Mundy 2000; Fig.”
Identification of scleractinian coral recruits from Indo-Pacific reefs (2003, methodology): “This technique has been used to examine a number of aspects of coral ecology, for example, spatial and temporal variations in recruitment (Birkeland et al. 1981, Wallace 1985, Baird and Hughes 1997, Mundy 2000, Hughes et al. 2002), cross-shelf differences in the relative abundance of recruits on t”
Coral recruitment and early benthic community development on several materials used in the construction of artificial reefs and breakwaters (2009, methodology): “This technique has both statistical and practical advantages over the use of tile racks, and provides similar results (Mundy, 2000).”
Closing the circle: is it feasible to rehabilitate reefs with sexually propagated corals? (2013, methodology): “Typically, ceramic or terracotta tiles have been used as substrates for settlement of larvae, rearing and transplantation (e.g. Omori 2005; Nakamura et al. 2011), and this is undoubtedly a legacy of their use in coral larval recruitment studies (Mundy 2000).”
Substratum preference during recruitment of two invasive alien corals onto shallow-subtidal tropical rocky shores. (2007, unknown): “…(Birkeland et al. 1981, Harriott & Banks 1995, Dunstan & Johnson 1998, Glassom et al. 2004), influences of orientation and position of substrata (Glasby 2000, Mundy 2000), coral early growth (van Moorsel 1988, Babcock & Mundy 1996) and the influence of community composition (Maida et al. 2001).”
Biannual spawning, rapid larval development and evidence of self-seeding for scleractinian corals at an isolated system of reefs (2009, methodology): “At each location, three groups of Wve terracotta settlement plates (110 £ 110 £ 10 mm) were attached (see Mundy 2000 ) haphazardly to the substrata in 9 m of water, with each group spaced at 50 m intervals along the reef slope.”
Recruitment, early survival and growth of the Mediterranean red coral Corallium rubrum (L 1758), a 4-year study (2005, background): “Twenty 90 120-mm white marble tiles were fixed with a central steel screw (Mundy, 2000) onto the vault of crevices, in which red coral persists at two different depths (10 tiles at 25F1 m and 10 at 35F1 m at and beneath the summer thermocline, respectively) off the bCalafuriaQ coast (Leghorn, Italy,”