The genus Astreopora is a small but ancestral group in Acroporidae, which is one of the most diverse and dominant families of scleractinian coral in Indo-Pacific reefs. We estimated the species boundaries of Astreopora corals using two molecular markers:

Coral growth rates vary significantly with environmental conditions and are thus important indicators of coral health and reef carbonate production. Despite the importance of this metric, data are sparse for most coral genera and species globally, including

Ecological succession is a fundamental process in the structure and dynamics of ecosystems, notably for recovery trajectories following disturbances1–3. Ecological succession was defined by Odum4 as the reasonably predictable process of community development