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Article History

Received: 25 September 2022

Revised: 9 March 2023

Accepted: 10 March 2023

First Online: 10 June 2023

Declarations

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: The authors declare no competing interests.

: All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for animal testing, animal care, and use of animals were followed by the author.

: All necessary permits for sampling and observational field studies have been obtained by the authors from the competent authorities and are mentioned in the acknowledgements.

: The data on size and abundance of the corals generated or analysed during this study are included in the supplementary information files, including the codes used for the analysis. The datasets on depth and GPS coordinates are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

: SB: conceptualisation, data curation, formal analysis, validation, investigation, methodology, project administration, visualisation, writing, and editing. MC: conceptualisation, data curation, investigation, methodology, writing, and editing. MW: conceptualisation, data curation, investigation, methodology, writing, and editing. HB: validation, writing, and editing. JMW: funding acquisition, validation, writing, and editing. MM: funding acquisition, validation, visualisation, writing, and editing. LN: funding acquisition, validation, methodology, writing, and editing. MB: conceptualisation, data curation, validation, investigation, methodology, supervision, writing, and editing.