not all stony corals grow large enough to build reef structures. In the tropics, hermatypic, or reef building corals, are able to grow and secrete their calcium carbonate skeleton with the aid of ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 54, No. 6 (Nov., 2009), pp. 1995-2002 (8 pages) Diel cycles of photosynthesis, respiration, and calcification were studied in situ on two hermatypic corals, Acropora ...