Heat stress and symbiont shuffling in Acropora · revision 1
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#1MajorMethods §2.3Your point: Symbiont clade was assigned from a single sampling point.
Authors’ responseAdded repeat sampling at 3 months (n = 48).
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Clade was assigned from samples taken in March 2024.Clade was assigned from samples taken in March 2024 and again in June 2024 (n = 48 colonies resampled).
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#2MajorResults, Fig. 3Your point: The model does not separate shuffling from initial clade composition.
Authors’ responseInitial composition is now a random effect; shuffling remains significant. We’d welcome a re-check.
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Shuffling was modelled as change in clade proportion over time.Shuffling was modelled as change in clade proportion over time, with initial composition as a random effect per colony.
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#3MinorDiscussion ¶4Your point: “Consistent with all prior work”: two cited studies partly disagree.
Authors’ responseAcknowledged Cunning 2015 and Silverstein 2017.
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These results are consistent with all prior work.These results agree with most prior work, though Cunning et al. (2015) and Silverstein et al. (2017) found weaker shuffling at depth.
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#4MinorMethods §2.1Your point: Water temperature logger calibration is not reported.
Authors’ responseCalibration added to supplement S2.
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Temperature was logged every 30 minutes.Temperature was logged every 30 minutes; loggers were calibrated against a reference thermometer before and after deployment (Supplement S2).
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#5MinorFigure 4Your point: Axis units missing on the anomaly panel.
Authors’ responseWe kept units in the caption, as the journal’s style requires.
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Figure 4. Temperature anomaly by site.Figure 4. Temperature anomaly by site (°C above the local maximum monthly mean).
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#6NoteAbstractYour point: State the number of colonies (n = 64).
Authors’ responseAdded.
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We tracked Acropora colonies across two seasons.We tracked 64 Acropora colonies across two seasons.
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