Hi everybody!

I was wondering if anyone would have any good papers that would discuss different scleractinian coral species fragmentation rates or erosion rates? More specifically how fast scleractinian coral skeleton erodes in the sediment. It's probably highly correlated with the skeletal density and the growth form (plating, branching or encrusting) as Raymond C. Highsmith discusses in his article "Coral Bioerosion: Damage Relative to Skeletal Density" (1981). But I'm trying to understand what are the chances of finding different species in the sediment and if some species will be under-represented in sediment studies and if so which? My hypothesis is that encrusting corals (such as Oulastrea sp. and Lithophyllon sp.) will usually not be well represented in sedimentation studies whereas branching and plating corals (such as Acropora sp. and  Turbinaria sp.) will dominate the skeletal abundance. Any references and reading recommendations are highly appreciated.

Thank you!

-Stefan