ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Moonrise timing is key for synchronized spawning in coral
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
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- Long-term aquarium records delineate the synchronized spawning strategy ofRoyal Society open science · 2024Article
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- The impacts of artificial light at night on the ecology of temperate and tropical reefs.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Synchronized mass coral spawning typically occurs several days after a full moon once a year. It is expected that spawning day is determined by corals sensing environmental change regulated by the lunar cycle (i.e., tide or moonlight); however, the exact regulatory mechanism remains unknown. Here, we demonstrate how moonlight influences the spawning process of coral,
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