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Response to Comment on Trophic strategy and bleaching resistance in reef-building corals
Inga E Conti-Jerpe1, Philip D Thompson2, Cheong Wai Martin Wong2
1The Swire Institute of Marine Science and the School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China. ingacontijerpe@gmail.com dmbaker@hku.hk.
Abstract:
Recently, we published a novel method used to assess the trophic niches of different coral species and demonstrated that their nutrition varied considerably, with some species highly dependent on their photosynthetic algal symbionts and others able to feed on plankton to meet energetic requirements. Adjustments to the use of this tool are necessary when it is applied to other scientific questions and symbiotic organisms. We respond to a comment highlighting a risk of bias in the methods, discuss suggested adjustments, and propose further refinements to improve method robustness.
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