cbwall/Coral-isotopes-across-space-and-time: Symbiont communities shape coral physiology and nutrition

Published dataset for Wall et al. (in press 2019), The ISME Journal.

CB Wall, M Kaluhiokalani, BN Popp, MJ Donahue, RD Gates. (2019). Divergent symbiont communities determine the physiology and nutrition of a reef coral across a light-availability gradient. The ISME Journal.

Symbiont communities have far reaching implications for performance of host organisms. Here, we tested the influence of symbiont communities on coral physiology (tissue biomass, symbiont density, photopigmentation) and nutrition (δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N) by sampled Montipora capitata colonies dominated by a specialist symbiont Cladocopium spp. or a putative opportunist Durusdinium glynnii (hereafter, C- or D-colonies) from Kāne'ohe Bay, Hawai'i, across gradients in photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) (1 - 10 m depth) during summer and winter.