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Map of sites surveyed at the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Depths ranged between 3-14 m (Preston & Richards 2021).
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Growth anomalies are a tumour-like coral disease, affecting key reef-building corals across global coral reefs. This disease is observed as pale protruding masses, affecting polyp development and causing abnormal skeletal growth patterns. It is typically associated with thermal stress events or proximity to large anthropogenic centres. Here, I revi...
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... to CKI to characterise the occurrence of GAs using ecological and molecular methods. Field surveys and specimen collection were undertaken from 17-24 May, where 11 sites were chosen based on where GAs were observed in a previous study (Alexander et al. 2019;Richards & Newman 2019) factoring in prevailing weather conditions and time constraints (Fig. 1). Ecological surveys consisted of three I. palifera specific belt transects (10 x 25 m) per site, and three benthic communities and coral cover surveys (25 m point intersect transects) per site. Specimens were collected at four sites, from both affected and healthy control colonies. Growth anomalies were identified as paletumorous ...
