Remnant hollowed out dead coral skeleton branches defer coral community recovery

• Kathryn C. Scafidi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kathryn.scafidi@postgrad.otago.ac.nz

  Current address: Department of Marine Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

  Affiliation Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7550-0163

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• Kyle W. Fouke,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Mayandi Sivaguru,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Cytometry and Microscopy to Omics Facility, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Bruce W. Fouke,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Cancer Center at Illinois, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Peter J. Edmunds

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge, California, United States of America

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