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The discovery of multi-species
synchronous spawning of scleractinian corals on the Great Barrier Reef in the
1980s stimulated an extraordinary effort to document spawning times in other
parts of the globe. Unfortunately, most of these data remain unpublished which
limits our understanding of regional and global reproductive patterns. The
Coral Spawning Database (CSD) collates much of these disparate data into a
single place. The CSD includes 6178 observations (3085 of which were
unpublished) of the time or day of spawning for over 300 scleractinian species in
61 genera from 101 sites in the Indo-Pacific. The goal of the CSD is to provide
open access to coral spawning data to accelerate our understanding of coral
reproductive biology and to provide a baseline against which to evaluate any
future changes in reproductive phenology.
Funding
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies CE140100020