{"id":2526,"date":"2024-02-29T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?page_id=2526"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:06:30","slug":"still-thriving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/observations-ii\/vauxhall-reef-environs-2024\/still-thriving\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Thriving"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nVauxhall Reef & Environs 2024<\/strong>\u00a0is a sub-page of ObsII<\/a> a top-level page on the website Barbados Fringing Reefs and Seagrass Beds<\/a> (www.versicolor.ca\/barbados).
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Some of the individual specimens, species, and whole sections of the reef that survived the multiples stresses of 2023 more or less unscathed. Lots more to be added.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Leading edge of spur (in Seaward Slope Zone), on Feb 19, 2024<\/strong>.\u00a0 At Vauxhall there are large areas of\u00a0Porites-dominated spurs with close to 100% living coral extending to their edges at the Reef Front. They are the most actively growing areas of the reef, Major components viewable in this photo; Finger Coral (Porites porites<\/em>) Pencil Coral (Madracis sp<\/em>.) and one of the stinging corals –\u00a0Millepora alcicornis –<\/em> all thriving. Some Millepora complanata was\u00a0<\/em>present and was mostly dead, covered with ephiphytes, as in shallower areas, attributable\u00a0 to coral bleaching in 2023.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Knobby Brain Coral, Pseudodiploria clivosa,\u00a0<\/em> in the Reef Flat Zone at Vauxhall on Jan 15, 2024.\u00a0<\/strong>Pseudodiploria clivosa<\/em> is described as forming “flat mats or mounds up to 3 feet wide with an irregular knobbed surface” (D&J Greenberg, 1977). The flat mat form is very common at Vauxhall and on other reefs in the MPA and remained free of SCTLD in 2023 when immediately neighbouring species, e.g. Pseudodiploria strigosa\u00a0<\/em>were heavily infected. The moundy types are very prominent in the Reef Flat and D-P Zones at Vauxhall; rare today in the MPA outside of Vauxhall. Lewis (1960)<\/a> described the species as ”\u00a0the most successful coral occurring in this [Diploria-Palythoa] zone. It forms low encrustations 1 or 2 f t wide up to 6 f t in diameter.”, Lewis (1960) did NOT observe it in the Reef Flat Zone. Today at Vauxhall, it is prominent in both Zones. To its left in the photo above: Millepora complanata<\/em>, dead and covered with ephiphytes, attributable to coral bleaching in 2023 – so evidently, P clivosa<\/em> was resistant to both extreme warming and SCTLD in 2023.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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