Please go here for the high-resolution maps.

To read a description of the reefs of Raivavae, please see the field report, as well as Mayfield et al. (2015, Platax). For information on the sampled colonies (n=18), please see the latter manuscript, as well as Mayfield et al. (2016). For more information on the reefs of Raivavae and Tubuai, check out this blog. For high-resolution maps overlaid with a variety of GIS and environmental data (see example to the right.), please see the newly completed KbSLOF maps page: https://maps.lof.org/lof.

Low-resolution map of Raivavae, the first island I visited as part of the “Global Reef Expedition.”

None of the 18 samples colonies were found to be displaying aberrant behavior at the time of sampling based on analysis of nine molecular+physiological-scale response variables (ibid). For the sampled coral colonies for which only thumbnail images are presented, click on the image to be taken to a new webpage featuring a higher quality image that can be downloaded (i.e., NOT a thumbnail). This was my first time to ever use an underwater camera, so, if the images appear poorly white balanced or blurry, it is my fault (and not a result of compressing them down to thumbnail size). Hyperlinks to data files have been placed within images of the corals analyzed in detail.

misc. underwater Raivavae

AURV01 (Raivavae site 1) Apparently, I had not yet heard of white balancing in 2013.

AURV01 samples (n=1 colony)

colony 1

Sample was neither genotyped nor analyzed in detail (nucleic acids and proteins degraded).

AURV02 (no colonies sampled)

AURV03 colonies (n=2)(no pictures of site AURV03)

colony 2 (P. damicornis) from AURV03 (sample was not processed in detail)

colony 3

P. damicornis genotype alpha (from AURV03)

Click here for data from this colony.

AURV04

colony 4 (P. damicornis) from AURV04

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Click here for data: JMP or Excel.

Raivavae colony 4 (P. damicornis)

AURV06 (Apr. 12, 2013)-no habitat shots. Five colonies sampled .

colony 5

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

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colony 6

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha (best guess; sample was not genotyped)

Click here for more information about this sample, which was not processed in full.

colony 7

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Sample was not processed since RNA extraction failed. Other data can be found here.

colony 8

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha (best guess; sample was not genotyped due to failed DNA extraction).

Sample was not analyzed in detail due to poor preservation of nucleic acids. Click here for other data.

colony 12

Pocillopora acuta (genotype beta; first of trip)

DNAs performed poorly in real-time PCR, so sample was generally not considered in statistical analyses. Data can be found here.

AURV07 (Apr. 13, 2013)

AURV07

second day at Raivavae

colony 9

P. damicornis genotype alpha

Sample was poorly preserved, and nucleic acids were degraded. Sample was not analyzed in detail, but other, non-molecular data can be found here.

colony 10

P. damicornis genotype alpha

This colony was also not analyzed in full due to poor nucleic acid preservation, but other sample data can be found here.

colony 11

P. damicornis genotype alpha

Nucleic acids were also poorly preserved in this sample (I do NOT recommend RNALater!), but some data can nevertheless be found here.

AURV07 colonies (n=3)

colony 13

P. damicornis genotype alpha

Nucleic acids were poorly preserved, so sample was not processed in detail. Some data can be found here.

colony 14

P. damicornis genotype alpha

Sample was not analyzed in detail due to poor preservation of nucleic acids. Other sample data can be found here.

colony 15

Sample was not genotyped nor analyzed in detail due to poor preservation of nucleic acids. Click here for other details of this colony.

colony 16

Yet another sample whose RNAs and DNAs were poorly preserved with RNALater. Consequently, biopsy was not analyzed in detail. Click here for other sample information.

colony 17

P. damicornis genotype alpha

Finally! A sample whose RNAs and DNAs were well preserved with RNALater. For the data in JMP format, click here. Otherwise, here is an Excel file.

colony 18

P. damicornis genotype alpha

Another sample from Raivavae whose RNAs and DNAs were actually well preserved! Click here for data in JMP format (or here for Excel).

AURV08 (Apr. 13, 2013)-no habitat shots. Six colonies sampled.