Heat stress and symbiont shuffling in Acropora

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MAJORMethods §2.3

Symbiont clade was assigned from a single sampling point.

MAJORResults, Fig. 3

The model does not separate shuffling from initial clade composition.

MINORDiscussion ¶4

“Consistent with all prior work”: two cited studies partly disagree.

MINORMethods §2.1

Water temperature logger calibration is not reported.

MINORFigure 4

Axis units missing on the anomaly panel.

NOTEAbstract

State the number of colonies (n = 64).

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