Fig. 1: Predictors of reef fish carbonate excretion rate.

a Effects of fish traits and temperature on carbonate excretion rate. b Family-specific effects on carbonate excretion rate. Estimates are medians (circles), 50% credible intervals (CIs; thick lines; some are too narrow to be seen) and 95% CIs (thin lines) derived from 12,000 posterior draws of a Bayesian multilevel distributional regression model. All predictors were standardised (mean-centred and scaled by one standard deviation) prior to fitting the model to allow for the comparison of effect sizes (non-standardised effects are reported in the text). Labridae-S scarine Labridae, Labridae-NS non-scarine Labridae. Data underlying the figures are available in the Zenodo repository (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7530455)93.