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Table 9.2. Gross photosynthesis (P,) and respiration (M,) in corals calculated g-l of
weight at optimal illumination
Coral
jlg O 2 h- 1
P,
Pocillopora damicornis 53
117
44-87 a
Stylophora pistillata
31-82 a
24-58
30-114"
Acropora cerviprnis
40
Acropora prostrata
90 a
Acropora corymbosa
41
Porites nigrescens
104 a
Porites solida
12
Montipora tuberculosa 147 a
Merulina laxa
166 a
Fungia fungites
79 a
Cyphastrea
13
microphthalmus
Goniopora stokesi
27
Psammocora contigua
104
Millepora platyphylla
13 a
a Measured in flow respirometers.
~
78
12
8
-8
jlg C day-l
M,
P,
M,
26
180
188
16
400
113
8-36 223
160
13-26 248
115
16-35 138
180
15-48 203
226
10
136
72
35
305
254
28
140
198
42
352
300
5
41
34
59
500
427
46
565
322
33
269
236
8
41
59
16
92
113
30
136
216
4
41
30
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P,/M, Reference
day-l
1.0
Nair and Pillai (1972)
3.5
Kawaguti (1937)
1.4
Tcharbadgy and Fam
Van Huen (1988)
2.2
Propp (1985)
0.8
Titlyanov et al. (1988b)
0.9
Tcharbadgy and Fam
Van Huen (1988)
1.9
Porter (1980)
1.2
Propp (1985)
1.4
Nair and Pillai (1972)
1.2
Propp (1985)
1.2
Nair and Pillai (1972)
1.2
Propp (1985)
1.8
Propp (1985)
1.1
Tcharbadgy and Fam
Van Huen (1988)
6.7
Nair and Pillai (1972)
0.8
Nair and Pillai (1972)
0.6
Nair and Pillai (1972)
1.4
Tcharbadgy and Fam
Van Huen (1988)
Fig. 9.1. Diurnal course of photosynthesis and respiration in the coral Stylophora
pistil/ata (PI' MI, jlgCg- 1 h- 1 ) and the elements of gross and net production: P n net
(visible) photosynthesis of coral; Pnz net photosynthesis of zooxanthellae; Mz respiration
of zooxanthellae; Ma respiration of animal tissues of the polyps themselves. (After
Muscatine et al. 1981)