Table 3. Approximate time of whole mortality of Acropora colonies.

Size classes are the same with in Table 2. Because significant difference in the whole mortality time was observed only for A. gemmifera, all other Acropora were pooled. Time until whole mortality was expressed as months after the first Acropora bleaching report at the study site in 2016 (Nishiguchi et al., 2018). Number of colonies is shown in parentheses in whole mortality rate.

Date of observation	Approximate time until whole mortality (months)	Whole mortality rate (%)
		Small A. gemmifera (N = 12)	Large A. gemmifera (N = 28)	Other Acropora (N = 83)
Sept. 03, 2016	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sept. 11, 2016	2.5 to 3.0	33.3 (4)	7.1 (2)	0.0
Sept. 30, 2016	3.0 to 3.5	66.7 (8)	35.7 (10)	0.0
Oct. 10. 2016	3.5 to 4.0	75.0 (9)	39.3 (11)	21.7 (18)
Nov. 11, 2016	4.0 to 5.0	75.0 (9)	57.1 (16)	25.3 (21)
Feb. 4, 2017	5.0 to 8.0	75.0 (9)	71.4 (20)	26.5 (22)