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Appendix E. Results of encounters between neighboring corals at the Protected Crest, 2 m², 1963–1989. For each interaction between a species pair, numbers are: row species wins/ column species wins/ ties.

	Number of Genets														Other spp.	Number per species			%
Species:		18	11	2	7	16	97	34	5	99	20	26	15	21		Ties	Wins	Losses	Wins	Ties
2 Acropora aspera	68															42	34	11	81	48
7 Acropora digitifera	129	01/0	4/3/12													79	41	18	79	57
16 Acropora hyacinthus	27		2/1/1	1/1/5												11	9	5	69	44
97 Plesiastrea versipora	8			0/0/1												7	4	1	80	58
34 Acropora valida	25		0/0/1	0/1/1												11	4	6	40	52
5 Acropora cuneata	19		0/1/0	1/0/1	0/0/1	0/0/1										11	3	4	43	61
99 Pocillopora damicornis	15		0/0/1	1/1/0	0/0/1		1/0/0									9	4	2	67	60
20 Acropora millepora	55	0/0/1	0/4/8	3/2/4	1/1/0	1/2/1	1/0/0	0/0/1	1/1/2							27	20	12	64	46
26 Acropora robusta	14		0/0/1	1/1/3		0/1/0				0/0/1						7	4	3	57	50
15 Acropora humilis	29		2/6/4	0/3/4	1/1/0		0/0/1	0/0/1		0/0/1						14	5	10	33	48
39 Unknown Acropora spp.	22		0/1/0	0/5/0	0/4/1			0/1/0	0/2/0		1/0/0		0/1/0			5	2	18	10	20
85/ 86 Montipora foliosa	88		0/7/6	0/11/17	1/3/2	0/0/1	0/3/3	0/0/3	0/0/2	0/8/5	1/0/0		0/1/0	0/0/1		50	10	34	23	53
101/ 104 Porites spp.	138		0/2/0	0/4/5	0/12/24	0/1/0	0/1/3	0/0/3	0/0/3	0/1/1	0/4/2	0/2/2	0/2/2	0/2/7	0/1/0	63	0	56	0	53
21 Acropora nasuta	28	0/2/0	0/3/1	0/1/4	0/0/1		0/0/1		0/0/1			0/0/1				11	0	6	0	65
11 Acropora formosa	8						0/0/1				0/1/0					1	5	1	83	14
144 Zoanthus vietnamensis	23			2/0/2	5/0/1	1/0/0		3/0/0	3/0/0		1/1/0			0/2/0	23/0/4	12	42	1	98	22
TOTAL																362	189	188		49