The following are collection and transplant details for Porites astreoides specimens collected during my November 2015 Belize trip.
Colonies labeled 1-19 brought back to CBC, sampled for DNA, photographed, dyed with alizarin red (10 mg/L for 12 h), fragmented, and transplanted in common garden. Select halves were also brought back to home site and marked with tags and subsurface markers. Samples 80-100 sampled in situ and preserved on site. | |||||||||
Past ID | color | depth | habitat | nearby landmark | coordinates | transplanted to CBC | returned to home site | underwater mark | notes |
1 | brown | 2 | turtlegrass bed | Man o War Cay | 16 53.100, 88 6.459 | y | y | pvc stick | |
2 | brown | 2.5 | coral bar | Cross Cay | 16 58.381, 88 3.225 | y | n | na | |
3 | brown | 4 | patch reef | Columbus Reef | 16 57.193, 88 3.276 | y | n | na | |
4 | green | 2 | backreef/bommie | Tobacco Reef | 16 52.801, 88 4.042 | y | y | pvc stick & subsurface float (orange) | |
100 | green | 2 | turtlegrass bed | Man o War Cay | 16 53.100, 88 6.459 | n | na | na | interesting pillar-like morphology |
99 | green | 2 | backreef/bommie | Tobacco Reef | 16 51.464, 88 4.393 | n | na | na | |
5 | green | 2 | turtlegrass bed | Blue Ground Range | 16 49.278, 88 8.289 | y | y | pvc stick & subsurface float (orange) | |
6 | green | 3 | patch reef | Blue Ground Range | 16 49.183, 88 9.082 | y | n | na | |
7 | green | 2 | patch reef/shoal | Blue Ground Range | 16 47.785, 88 9.006 | y | y | subsurface float | |
8 | green | 4 | backreef/channel | South Water Cay | 16 48.697, 88 4.970 | y | n | na | |
9 | green | 2 | backreef | Carrie Bow Cay | 16 48.354, 88 4.998 | y | y | subsurface float | |
98 | brown | 2 | turtlegrass bed | Blue Ground Range | 16 49.278, 88 8.289 | n | na | na | |
97 | brown | 6 | patch reef | Carrie Bow Cay | 16 48.504, 88 5.161 | n | na | na | |
96 | ? | 2 | patch reef/shoal | Blue Ground / Twin Cays | 16 49.064, 88 7.748 | n | na | na | |
95 | ? | 2 | patch reef | Blue Ground Range | 16 48.487, 88 8.443 | n | na | na | |
10 | brown | 2 | sand/turtlegrass | Wee Wee Cay | 16 45.987, 88 8.631 | y | y | subsurface float | did not fasten with zspar |
11 | dark brown | 1.5 | turtlegrass/Porites bed | Douglas Cay | 16 42.406, 88 10.476 | y | y | pvc stick | |
94 | brown | 4.5 | cut/upper s&g forereef | Carrie Bow Cay | 16 47.990, 88 4.809 | y | n | na | samples put in RNAlater for gene expression |
93 | brown | 4.5 | cut/upper s&g forereef | Carrie Bow Cay | 16 47.990, 88 4.809 | y | n | na | samples put in RNAlater for gene expression |
92 | brown | 4.5 | cut/upper s&g forereef | Carrie Bow Cay | 16 47.990, 88 4.809 | y | n | na | samples put in RNAlater for gene expression |
91 | green | 2 | patch reef/shoal | Blue Ground/Wee Wee Cay | 16 46.828, 88 8.161 | n | na | na | |
90 | green | 1.5 | patch reef/shoal | Stewart Cay/Blue Ground | 16 45.917, 88 9.916 | n | na | na | |
89 | brown | 1.5 | patch reef | Douglas Cay | 16 42.621, 88 10.547 | n | na | na | |
88 | green | 2 | patch reef | Northeast Cay | 16 41.351, 88 11.422 | n | na | na | |
87 | brown | 2 | patch reef/shoal | Co Cat Cay | 16 39.940, 88 12.017 | n | na | na | |
86 | green | 2 | patch reef | Manatee Cay | 16 39.856, 88 11.289 | n | na | na | |
85 | green | 2 | patch reef | Elbow Cay | 16 40.892, 88 10.396 | n | na | na | |
84 | green | 1.5 | patch reef/shoal | Between Douglas and Elbow Cays | 16 41.776, 88 9.353 | n | na | na | |
12 | green | 1.5 | patch reef/shoal | west of South Reef | 16 44.896, 88 6.500 | y | y | subsurface float | |
83 | green | 1.5 | patch reef/shoal | west of South Reef | 16 43.988, 88 6.462 | n | na | na | |
82 | green | 2 | patch reef/shoal | northwest Gladden Spit | 16 41.016, 88 5.796 | n | na | na | |
81 | green | 2 | backreef | northwest Gladden Spit | 16 41.670, 88 4.539 | n | na | na | |
80 | brown | 2 | backreef | South Cut | 16 42.987, 88 4.773 | n | na | na | |
13 | green | 2 | backreef | South Reef | 16 45.286, 88 4.707 | y | y | subsurface float | colony badly fragmented; mulitple (4) small fragements transplanted at CBC |
14 | brown | 1 | backreef | south of Curlew Cut | 16 46.600, 88 4.744 | y | y | subsurface float | |
15 | brown | 2 | backreef | Carrie Bow Cay | 16 48.126, 88 4.968 | y | n | na | |
16 | green | 0.75 | backreef – near exp plot | Carrie Bow Cay | 16 48.167, 88 4.857 | y | y | na | colony collected adjacent to commong garden, treated same as all others, and re-planted in common garden |
17 | brown | 0.75 | backreef – near exp plot | Carrie Bow Cay | 16 48.167, 88 4.857 | y | y | na | colony collected adjacent to commong garden, treated same as all others, and re-planted in common garden |
18 | green | 0.75 | backreef – near exp plot | Carrie Bow Cay | 16 48.167, 88 4.857 | y | y | na | colony collected adjacent to commong garden, treated same as all others, and re-planted in common garden |
19 | green | 0.75 | backreef – near exp plot | Carrie Bow Cay | 16 48.167, 88 4.857 | y | y | na | colony collected adjacent to commong garden, treated same as all others, and re-planted in common garden |