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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Allee effects limit coral fertilization success.

Peter J Mumby, Greta Sartori, Elizabeth Buccheri, Cinzia Alessi, Hannah Allan, Christopher Doropoulos, Geraldine Rengiil, Gerard Ricardo

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. Allee effects limit coral fertilization success.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Peter J MumbyMarine Spatial Ecology Lab, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6297-9053
Greta SartoriPalau International Coral Reef Center, Koror 96940, Republic of Palau.ORCID 0000-0002-8514-9183
Elizabeth BuccheriMarine Spatial Ecology Lab, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0890-5464
Cinzia AlessiPalau International Coral Reef Center, Koror 96940, Republic of Palau.ORCID 0000-0002-5745-4754
Hannah AllanMarine Spatial Ecology Lab, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6959-6939
Christopher DoropoulosEnvironment Department, Commonwealth Scientific, Industrial, and Research Organisation, St. Lucia, QLD 4067, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8038-2771
Geraldine RengiilPalau International Coral Reef Center, Koror 96940, Republic of Palau.
Gerard RicardoMarine Spatial Ecology Lab, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2220-3971

Funding

CORDAP NAMcCusker Foundation NAReef Restoration and Adaptation Program ECORAP
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coral populations are being progressively thinned by climate change, which elevates the risk of reproductive failure from Allee effects during fertilization. Studies have shown that fertilization success improves during more intense and synchronized spawning, but the local dependence of fertilization on coral density remains unknown in wild populations. Here, we measure the fertilization success of individual colonies of the common table coral,

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AnthozoaClimate ChangeFertilizationAnimalsCoral ReefsReproductioncoral reefreproductionresiliencespawningthreshold

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PMID39680760
PMCPMC11670066

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