Mechanical limitations of reef corals during hydrodynamic disturbances

By Joshua S Madin. Coral reefs, 2005

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Coral reef benthic regimes exhibit non-linear threshold responses to natural physical drivers (2015, background): “Branching corals have a comparatively higher colony shape factor than encrusting and plating (i.e. tabular) corals, lending to increased vulnerability to wave-induced disturbance (Madin 2005).”
Quantifying coral morphology (2019, background): “…processes such as growth and survival, where higher surface area to volume ratios allow more biomass per unit investment in skeleton, but may increase the risk of partial colony mortality (Lirman 2000), dislodgement (Madin 2005), and susceptibility to thermal bleaching (Baird and Marshall 2002).”
Acclimation and adaptation of scleractinian coral communities along environmental gradients within an Indonesian reef system (2010, background): “Low profile massive corals are structurally more stable than branching species (Madin, 2005), and their presence inmarginal habitats (and the absence of branching species) may reflect seasonal occurrence of hydrodynamic disturbance events unobserved in this investigation, or the unsuitability of bra”
Evaluating life-history strategies of reef corals from species traits. (2012, background): “However, these species are extremely sensitive to breakage and dislodgement during storms (Madin 2005) and often exhibit high mortality following temperature anomalies and coral bleaching (McClanahan et al.”