Do fluctuating temperature environments elevate coral thermal tolerance?

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Mangrove and Seagrass Beds Provide Different Biogeochemical Services for Corals Threatened by Climate Change (2016, background): “604 Corals have been documented to acclimatize to thermal stress via prior exposure to temperature 605 variability (Castillo and Helmuth, 2005; Jones et al., 2008; Oliver and Palumbi, 2011).”
Conserving potential coral reef refuges at high latitudes (2014, background): “For example, corals living in variable temperature regimes exhibit high thermal tolerance (Oliver & Palumbi, 2011) that may enhance their resistance to climate change (Pandolfi et al., 2011).”
Mechanisms of Thermal Tolerance in Reef-Building Corals across a Fine-Grained Environmental Mosaic: Lessons from Ofu, American Samoa (2018, background): “Symbiont type alone, however, could not explain differences in bleaching resistance between pools: colonies from the MV pool that also harbored high levels of clade D experienced declines in photosystem II photochemical efficiencies that were not statistically different from the MV colonies predomin”
Environmental Drivers of Variation in Bleaching Severity of Acropora Species during an Extreme Thermal Anomaly (2017, background): “Heat stress experiments indicate that corals from habitats with high variability in temperature have lower mortality rates than corals from habitats with moderate thermal variability (Oliver and Palumbi, 2011).”