Introduction Thermal stress experiments on corals from habitats with contrasting environmental regimes in understudied regions, such as South Africa, are essential to elucidate the mechanisms underlying coral resilience/susceptibility to thermal stress. This study examined the thermal resilience/susceptibility of Anomastraea irregularis (massive morphology) and Pocillopora verrucosa (branching morphology) collected from enviro...

Multi‐specific synchronous spawning has never been documented for East Africa, but coral spawn‐slicks are observed annually around Vamizi Island, Northern Mozambique. We monitored gamete development in Acropora species from July 2012 to October 2013 and from August to September 2014 to describe patterns of reproductive seasonality and synchrony within and amongst species of Acropora . Gamete maturation was highly synchronized...