{"id":1972,"date":"2024-02-16T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2024-02-27T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T20:09:12","slug":"complete-dieback-of-acropora-prolifera-hybrid-acroporoid-coral-on-vauxhall-reef-barbados-in-2023-16feb2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/2024\/02\/16\/complete-dieback-of-acropora-prolifera-hybrid-acroporoid-coral-on-vauxhall-reef-barbados-in-2023-16feb2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete dieback of Acropora prolifera (hybrid acroporoid coral) on Vauxhall Reef, Barbados in 2023 16Feb2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

Click on images for larger versions<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The photos at left illustrate two A colonies by a large Diploria clivosa<\/em> on the Reef Flat at Vauxhall. In the top photo, taken on Mar. 30, 2023, both colonies are entirely healthy.<\/p>\n

In the bottom photo, taken on Jan 15, 2024, the two colonies are apparently totally dead and have a layer of fine algae and silt on them, much like the adjacent old coral bedrock.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

There were no signs of any living tissue<\/p><\/div>\n

On Jan 15, 2024,\u00a0 I viewed 15 individual colonies in the Reef Flat Zone, 4 in the Diploria-Palythoa zone, and the “mother Colony” in the Reef Crest zone. All had the same appearance.<\/p>\n

Evidently, there was 100% mortality or close to 100% of A. prolifera<\/em> at Vauxhall between these two dates. It was likely associated with one or more of the extreme warming events in 2023.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The photos at left illustrate two A colonies by a large Diploria clivosa on the Reef Flat at Vauxhall. In the top photo, taken on Mar. 30, 2023, both colonies are entirely healthy. In the bottom photo, taken on Jan … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acroporoids","category-extreme-warming-coral-bleaching","category-reef-health","category-vauxhall-reef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}