Shading as a mitigation tool for coral bleaching in three common Indo-Pacific species

Funding

All field experiments were conducted in agreement with American Samoa's Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, and the National Park Service in American Samoa. We are grateful to Mike King, Tafito Aitaoto, Terry Richard (“Ricky”) Misa'alefua and Fa'atapepe (“Pepe”) Fa'apito for their field assistance, Ricky also helped with lab activities in Ofu. We thank Peter Craig, Tim Clark and Mike Reynolds for their support for this project, and the Malae family for their hospitality and help with fieldwork in Ofu. Funding for this project was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coral Reef Conservation Program (award number NA09NMF4630105 ) and the National Park Service. Dominican University of California and Stanford University also helped fund various elements of the tank system in Ofu. Appendix A