Observations and in situ experiments carried out between 1981 and 1983 near Pari Island, Seribu Archipelago, Java Sea, showed that reef-building corals can reiterate their specific colony architecture after being subjected to an environmental trauma which irreversibly alters their characteristic appearance.
Besides trees (Oldeman, 1974 ; Hallé, Oldeman and Tomlinson, 1978) many fixed colonial
... [Show full abstract] organisms such as hydroids, gorgonians, sponges and corals, display this process of architectural adjustment. Reiteration appears to be a fundamental characteristic of sessile organisms.