Importance of a micro-diet for scleractinian corals

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Effects of temperature, light and heterotrophy on the growth rate and budding of the temperate coral Cladocora caespitosa (2008, background): “Heterotrophy also has been found to enhance skeletal growth (Wellington 1982; Lasker et al. 1983; Anthony and Fabricius 2000; Ferrier-Pagès et al. 2003; Houlbreque et al. 2003, 2004b), particularly for tropical corals living in turbid water (Anthony and Fabricius 2000).”
The importance of zooplankton to the daily metabolic carbon requirements of healthy and bleached corals at two depths (2008, background): “…and 47%, respectively, of daily metabolic carbon (DMC) requirements, without accounting for bacteria, particulate organic matter, or microzooplankton capture, which alone has been shown to account for over 8% of daily metabolic energy requirements in some coral species (Houlbrèque et al., 2004).”