The scaling of metabolic traits differs among larvae and juvenile colonies of scleractinian corals

Body size profoundly affects organism fitness and ecosystem dynamics through the scaling of physiological traits. This study tests for variation in metabolic scaling and its potential drivers among corals differing in life history strategies and taxonomic identity. Data were compiled from published sources and augmented with empirical measurements of corals in Moorea, French Polynesia. The data compilation revealed metabolic isometry in broadcasted larvae, but size-independent metabolism in brooded larvae; empirical measures of Pocillopora acuta larvae also supported size-independent metabolism in brooded coral larvae. In contrast, for juvenile colonies (i.e., 1–4 cm diameter), metabolic scaling was isometric for Pocillopora spp. and negatively allometric for Porites spp. The scaling of biomass with surface area was isometric for Pocillopora spp., but positively allometric for Porites spp., suggesting the surface area:biomass ratio mediates metabolic scaling in these corals. The scaling..., Data were compiled from published sources and augmented with empirical measurements of corals in Moorea, French Polynesia. Data were processed through Excel and R software (R Development Core Team 2021, v1.4.1103) using the stats package (R Core Team, v4.0.3), and the car package (Fox and Weisberg, 2020, v3.0-10) used to test for the statistical assumptions of the procedures employed.
Metabolic scaling of larvae - data compilation
To investigate metabolic scaling of brooded and broadcasted larvae, data were compiled from peer-reviewed and grey literature identified using Web of Science, Google Scholar, and the published proceedings of the International Coral Reef Symposia which were available from 1972 to 2012 (accessed 11 May 2020). The keywords, “(scleractinia*) and (larva* or planula*) and (respirat* or metabolism or \"metabolic rate\" or metabolic)” were utilized, with the asterisks indicating different suffixes. The citation lists in the papers included in the data compilation were a..., , # Scaling of metabolic traits of larvae and juvenile scleractinian corals

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## Description of the datasets for Bean and Edmunds 2024 ([https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246362)](https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246362\))

**\"Data_compilation_list.xlsx\"** contains all the literature screened for relevance to include in the data compilation. 

**\"Data_comp_data.xlsx\"** is the data set containing all the compiled data from the data compilation. It includes \"Source_resp\" (i.e., where respiration rates were located), \"n_resp\" (i.e., number of larvae in each replicate for respiration rates), \"Respiration_OG\", \"Respiration_OG_SE\", and \"Respiration_OG_units\" which are the original respiration rates, standard error, and unit of measure of the respiration rates reported in the literature, \"Source_energy\" (i.e., the location where measures of biomass, protein, or lipids were found), \"n_energy\" (i.e., number of larvae in each r...