Between 2009 and 2014, eight manipulative experiments were conducted with reef-building pocilloporid corals at Taiwan's National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium in order to gauge their response to changing environmental conditions. To read more about each project, scroll down the page and click on the relevant link. My goal is to make all of the data from all of the projects publicly available, but this will be a work in progress. In the mean time, email me if you would like data or samples from any particular project described below and on the individual project pages.
An adult S. hystrix colony
Seriatopora hystrix short-term temperature experiment (SHSTTE).
S. hystrix variable temperature study (SHVTS). For the SHVTS transcriptome, click here.
Pocillopora damicornis larvae pCO2 x temperature experiment (PDpCO2-larvae).
P. damicornis adult pCO2 x temperature experiment (PDpCO2-adult).
P. damicornis long-term temperature experiment (PDLTTE). For the PDLTTE transcriptome, click here.
P. damicornis polyps
P. damicornis short-term temperature experiment-1 (PDSTTE#1).
P. damicornis short-term temperature experiment-2 (PDSTTE#2).
Long-term ocean acidification experiment (LTOA).