Response to Comment on Trophic strategy and bleaching resistance in reef-building corals

Inga E. CONTI-JERPE; Philip D. THOMPSON; Cheong Wai Martin WONG; Nara L. OLIVEIRA; Nicolas N. DUPREY; Molly A. MOYNIHAN; David M. BAKER

doi:10.1126/sciadv.abi8666

Response to Comment on Trophic strategy and bleaching resistance in reef-building corals

Inga E. CONTI-JERPE^*, Philip D. THOMPSON, Cheong Wai Martin WONG, Nara L. OLIVEIRA, Nicolas N. DUPREY, Molly A. MOYNIHAN, David M. BAKER^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	eabi8666
Number of pages	2
Journal	Science advances
Volume	7
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi8666
Publication status	Published - Jun 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Acknowledgments:
We thank S. McIlroy and J. Cybulski for providing friendly reviews of the response manuscript.

Funding

This work was supported by Research Grants Council Hong Kong Early Career 602 Scheme #789913 and Research Grants Council Hong Kong General Research Fund 603 #17100014.

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Response to Comment on Trophic strategy and bleaching resistance in reef-building corals

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