Acknowledgments

We thank to the members and interns of the Gates Coral Lab, especially to Vojtěch Prokůpek, for assistance with fieldwork, coral fragmenting and sampling, as well as to Nicole Cernohorsky, Ariana S. Huffmyer and Crawford Drury for their valuable comments on the statistical analysis and RStudio programming. We also thank Crawford Drury for his comments on the manuscript. The research reported in this publication was supported by the Paul G. Allen Foundation.