The in situ light microenvironment of corals

• Main Authors: Wangpraseurt, Daniel, Polerecky, Lubos, Larkum, Anthony W. D., Ralph, Peter J., Nielsen, Daniel A., Pernice, Mathieu, Kühl, Michael
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104046; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19509
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We used a novel diver-operated microsensor system to collect in situ spectrally resolved light fields on corals with a micrometer spatial resolution. The light microenvironment differed between polyp and coenosarc tissues with scalar irradiance (400–700 nm) over polyp tissue, attenuating between 5.1...