Between 2000 and 2003
recruitment of all corals was extremely low, possibly due to the
scarcity of living adult colonies. From 2004 to 2008, recruitment
rate increased, especially for the others, which showed dominant
at all depths in both lagoon and ocean sites. Finally, in the period
2009–2014, recruitment rate by the others slowed down while
that of Acropora increased: Acropora became dominant on outer
flats and co-dominated with the others on the slopes; Pocillopora
recruits, always scarce in the previous phases, became comparatively
abundant, especially on shallow ocean reefs.