Water-flow rates and passive diffusion partially explain differential survival of corals during the 1998 bleaching event

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Water flow influences oxygen transport and photosynthetic efficiency in corals (2006, background): “Previous work has suggested a link between water flow, oxidative stress, and the ability of corals to resist and recover from coral bleaching (Lesser 1997; Nakamura and Woesik 2001; Nakamura et al. 2003; West and Salm 2003).”
Palau’s coral reefs show differential habitat recovery following the 1998-bleaching event (2007, background): “Loya et al. (2001), Nakamura and van Woesik (2001) and Bena and van Woesik (2004) have shown that small coral colonies are more tolerant to anomalous thermal stresses than large colonies.”
Environmental Drivers of Variation in Bleaching Severity of Acropora Species during an Extreme Thermal Anomaly (2017, background): “…with evidence of increased bleaching severity at exposed sites with high wave activity (McClanahan et al., 2007), as well as evidence of reduced bleaching, along with higher survival of bleached corals, under high water flow conditions (Nakamura and van Woesik, 2001; Nakamura and Yamasaki, 2005).”
Coral restoration research and technical developments: what we have learned so far (2019, background): “Nakamura and van Woesik (2001) provided experimental evidence for high survivorship of A. digitifera colonies that were subjected to both high sea surface temperatures (SSTs; ranging from 26.22°C to 33.65°C) and high-water flow (50– 70 cm s−1), while corals that were subjected to high SSTs and…”