Figure 3
From: The potential for coral reef establishment through free-living stabilization
Cross (a) and longitudinal (b) section of massive Porites lutea corallith, grown around a branching coral fragment core. Brown line denoted by r is resin uptake by the coral skeleton during sample preparation. Inset (c) is a close up of the interface between the core coral fragment and the subsequent P. lutea colonization. The arrow in (c) indicates the presence of crustose coralline algae. Scale bar is 0.5 cm in (a) and (b), and 0.2 cm in (c).
