Size matters: bleaching dynamics of the coral Oculina patagonica

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Response of zooxanthellae in symbiosis with the Mediterranean corals Cladocora caespitosa and Oculina patagonica to elevated temperatures (2006, background): “present study, bleaching in O. patagonica was not severe maybe due to: (a) the short-term increase in temperature, too short to activate V. shiloi, the causative agent of bleaching (Kushmaro et al. 1996); (b) the small size of the colonies, as it has recently been demonstrated that bleaching mostly ”
Long-term changes in coral colony size distributions on Kenyan reefs under different management regimes and across the 1998 bleaching event (2008, background): “Similarly, bleaching can cause both partial and total mortality and there is evidence for size-dependent responses to bleaching where recruits (Mumby 1999) and small coral colonies survive better than larger colonies (Loya et al. 2001; Nakamura and van Woesik 2001; Bena and van Woesik 2002; Shenkar ”
Breakdown of the coral-algae symbiosis: towards formalising a linkage between warm-water bleaching thresholds and the growth rate of the intracellular zooxanthellae (2012, unknown): “Individual colony bleaching patterns, which typically proceed from high mass transfer regions (tips and edges) towards low mass transfer regions (base and centre) (see e.g. Shenkar et al., 2005), also conform to the earlier explained 10 colony-scale topology of MI.”