TABLE A2.
References utilized to calculate rankings for various coral life‐history traits
| Life‐history group | Species group | Colony morph. | Growth rate | Reprod. mode | Reprod. output (sexual) | Asexual prop. |
Interspp. aggression |
Bleaching suscept. | Sediment rejection capacity/Sedimentation tolerance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Competitive | Acropora cervicornis | 1 | 3–6 | 26 | 27–29 | 39, 40 | 44 | 47, 48 | 52, 53 |
| Acropora palmata | 1 | 3–5, 7 | 26 | 27, 29 | 31, 40 | 44 | 47, 48 | 52, 53 | |
| (Millepora spp.) | 2 | 8–12 | 2 | 30, 31 | 41 | 45, 46 | 49, 47, 48 | 54 | |
| Stress‐tolerant | Colpophyllia natans | 1 | 4, 5 | 26 | 30, 32 | 40 | 44 | 48, 50 | 52 |
| Pseudodiploria spp. | 1 | 4, 5, 13 | 26 | 27, 34, 35, 36 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 52, 53 | |
| Meandrina spp. | 1 | 4 | 26 | 31, 32 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 52 | |
| Montastrea cavernosa | 1 | 4, 5 | 26 | 33, 37 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 52, 55 | |
| Orbicella spp. | 1 | 4, 5, 14–20 | 26 | 27, 33, 35 | 40, 42, 43 | 44 | 51 | 52, 53 | |
| Siderastrea spp. | 1 | 4, 5, 21 | 26 | 30, 33, 34 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 52, 53, 56, 57, 58, 59 | |
| Stephanocoenia spp. | 1 | 22 | 26 | 31 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 52, 58 | |
| Weedy | Agaricia spp. | 1 | 4, 5 | 26 | 31, 33, 35, 36, 38 | 33 | 44 | 48 | 52 |
| Branching Porites spp. | 1 | 5 | 26 | 35, 36 | 40, 33 | 44 | 48, 50 | 52, 53 | |
| Porites astreoides | 1 | 3–5, 13, 14, 23 | 26 | 31, 34, 35, 36 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 52, 53 | |
| Madracis spp. | 1 | 24, 25 | 26 | 30, 31, 33 | 31, 40, 33 | 44 | 48 | 52 |