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Moving to 3D: relationships between coral planar area, surface area and volume.
Article in PeerJ, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
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- 3D Habitat Complexity and Coral Morphology Modulate Reef Fish Functional Structure in a Marine National Park.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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- Multiscale structural complexity assessment of coral reefs using underwater photogrammetry.PloS one · 2025Article
- Predicting 3D and 2D surface area of corals from simple field measurements.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Seabirds boost coral reef resilience.Science advances · 2023Article
- The sizes of life.PloS one · 2023Article
- Morpho-functional traits of the coral Stylophora pistillata enhance light capture for photosynthesis at mesophotic depths.Communications biology · 2022Article
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- Allometric growth in reef-building corals.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
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7 authors.
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Abstract
Coral reefs are a valuable and vulnerable marine ecosystem. The structure of coral reefs influences their health and ability to fulfill ecosystem functions and services. However, monitoring reef corals largely relies on 1D or 2D estimates of coral cover and abundance that overlook change in ecologically significant aspects of the reefs because they do not incorporate vertical or volumetric information. This study explores the relationship between 2D and 3D metrics of coral size. We show that surface area and volume scale consistently with planar area, albeit with morphotype specific conversion parameters. We use a photogrammetric approach using open-source software to estimate the ability of photogrammetry to provide measurement estimates of corals in 3D. Technological developments have made photogrammetry a valid and practical technique for studying coral reefs. We anticipate that these techniques for moving coral research from 2D into 3D will facilitate answering ecological questions by incorporating the 3rd dimension into monitoring.
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