Comment on Trophic strategy and bleaching resistance in reef-building corals

In an era of major environmental changes, understanding corals' resistance to bleaching is as crucial as it is challenging. A promising framework for inferring corals' trophic strategies from Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses has been recently proposed to this end. As a contribution to this framework, we quantify a risk of bias inherent in its application and propose three alternative adjustments.

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In an era of significant environmental changes, understanding corals' resistance to bleaching is crucial. A new framework for inferring corals' trophic strategies has been proposed, but a potential bias risk was identified in its application, leading to the proposal of three alternative adjustments.