[Coral-List] Identification of juvenile scleractinian Corals: synthesys grant

[Hoeksema, B.W.]

Dear Alex and other coral-listers,

Identification of juvenile corals may be a specialist's job. Perhaps it helps to train yourself by using reference collections, like those in natural history museums. If you apply for a EU synthesys grant, this may help you to visit the Leiden museum, which has a large collection of Indonesian corals.

http://www.synthesys.info/
http://www.naturalis.nl/asp/page.asp?alias=naturalis.en&view=naturalis.en&id=i000256&frameurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naturalis.nl%2Fnaturalis.en%2Fnaturalis.en%2Fi000717.html

Good luck !

Bert

Dr. Bert W. Hoeksema
Head, Department of Zoology / Marine Research
National Museum of Natural History Naturalis
Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR  Leiden
P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA  Leiden
The Netherlands
Tel. +31.71.5687631
Fax +31.71.5687666
E-mail: Hoeksema at naturalis.nnm.nl
http://www.naturalis.nl/hoeksema
http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/corals.php


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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:16:25 +0100
From: Alex Boughton <abough at essex.ac.uk>
Subject: [Coral-List] Identification of juvenile scleractinian Corals
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Dear All,
I will soon be going out to Indonesia to undertake some research for  
my dissertation project.  I will specifically be looking at the  
factors that influence the recruitment and survival of scleractinian  
corals within the reef systems.  I am hoping to be able to identify  
the juveniles present to genus level, however I have been told that  
this can be challenging and I am struggling to find literature that  
can help with identification, i have reviewed Baird and Babcock 2000  
as a staring point however I was wondering if any one knew of any  
papers with useful identification information or specific keys to  
identification?

Regards,

Alex Boughton
abough at essex.ac.uk