Competition Among Sessile Organisms on Coral Reefs

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Coral Reef Algae (2011, background): “…(Edmunds and Carpenter 2001; Birrell et al. 2005) are thought to be due in part to chemically induced mortality or the increased biomass of fleshy algae functioning as a reservoir for coral pathogens (Nugues et al. 2004; Ritson-Williams et al. 2009; Chadwick and Morrow 2010; Rasher and Hay 2010).”
Alkaloids: an overview of their antibacterial, antibiotic-enhancing and antivirulence activities. (2014, background): “In sponges, alkaloids deter feeding and protect against infection [27], while in scleractinia they act as allelochemicals [31].”
Harnessing ecological processes to facilitate coral restoration (2018, unknown): “…community succession, and ecosystem function (Hillerislambers et al. 2012), particularly on coral reefs, where space is a highly contested resource (Chadwick and Morrow 2011). i On many reefs worldwide, weedy, fast-growing species like sponges and soft corals are replacing reef-building corals…”
Effects of the alien coral Tubastraea tagusensis on native coral assemblages in a southwestern Atlantic coral reef (2016, background): “Competitive processes regulate reef structure, since the space on hard substratum is limiting resource for the settlement, growth and reproduction of reef-building corals (Lang and Chornesky 1989; Connell et al. 2004; Chadwick and Morrow 2011).”