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Table 2 Thermal regime descriptors of the four sampled regions calculated from weekly SST data (from 1982 to the year of sampling, 2008 or 2009, according to regions)

From: Thermal regime and host clade, rather than geography, drive Symbiodinium and bacterial assemblages in the scleractinian coral Pocillopora damicornis sensu lato

 

Djibouti

French Polynesia

New Caledonia

Taiwan

Mean temperature (°C)

28.60

27.67

24.77

26.56

Max temperature (°C)

32.20

29.95

28.78

30.83

Min temperature (°C)

25.11

25.25

21.28

21.40

Mean of the warmer months (°C)

30.46

28.75

26.82

29.14

Mean of the colder months (°C)

26.32

26.51

22.81

23.88

Variance (°C)

3.17

1.05

3.04

4.56