Figure 3: Nestedness pattern in the Central Indo-Pacific region.
From: Plate tectonics drive tropical reef biodiversity dynamics
Observed (a,b) and simulated (c) pattern of nestedness in assemblage shown for (a) fishes and (b) corals and (c) with the parapatric model (d=4, ds=5) in the Central Indo-Pacific region. The colour scale represents the rank order of cells from the most species-rich cells (red) to the less species-rich ones (blue). The parapatric model faithfully outlines the current pattern of nestedness across the Central Indo-Pacific region, namely that assemblages in peripheral and species-poor cells are composed of species that constitute subsets of species that occur in successively richer cells of the Indo-Australian Archipelago (IAA).
