Fiji - Fulaga

Six Global Reef Expedition stations were surveyed at Fulaga, in southern Lau, on 11 and 12 June 2013. Maximum depths dived ran from 4 m at FJFU29 (Anderson's own sampling dive) to 29 m at FJFU25. The majority are fore-reef stations, but the set also includes three stations inside Fulaga's enclosed lagoon: FJFU24, FJFU28, where large coral pinnacles rise from a sandy floor with tops dominated by Pocillopora, Acropora, and Stylophora, and FJFU29, where Anderson sampled three Pocillopora acuta colonies.

The survey notes describe the Fulaga fore reef as spur-and-groove, with single-species stands of plating and foliose corals on gentler slopes and encrusting, laminar growth where the slope nears vertical. FJFU25 is a near-vertical face with foliose corals under overhangs and table and branching Acropora packed along the reef edge. Coral cover ran from 35% at FJFU25 to 55% at FJFU26, with 43% at FJFU24, 50% at FJFU29, and 44% at FJFU28, the three lagoon stations.

Island-level physiological screening (Mayfield et al. 2017, PLoS ONE) flagged 1 of the 6 corals with an outlier score as an outlier. A single stark-white branching colony appears in one FJFU25 frame, and Anderson's sampling sheet records one colony sampled there as mostly bleached or very pale, with smaller pale or bleached patches on the three colonies sampled at FJFU29 (F55 partially bleached, 20%; the other two less than 10% and 10–15% pale) and some white branch tips on the one colony sampled at FJFU27 (F53). No crown-of-thorns or disease is recorded.