Newly deceased Caribbean reef-building corals experience rapid carbonate loss and colonization by endolithic organisms.

The LMM models created for each species also revealed a highly significant relationship between positions across the colony (progressive changes from recent density bands to older bands) and status (i.e., living or dead) for D. cylindrus ( χ 2 = 19.40, df = 1, p < 0.01), P. strigosa ( χ 2 = 864.35, df = 1, p < 0.01), and S. siderea ( χ 2 = 6.99, df = 1, p < 0.01).

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