Fig. 3: Predictors of reef fish carbonate composition. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Predictors of reef fish carbonate composition.

From: Temperature, species identity and morphological traits predict carbonate excretion and mineralogy in tropical reef fishes

Fig. 3

a Effects of fish traits and temperature on the excretion rate of five different carbonate polymorphs. b Effects of species relative intestinal length (RIL) and water temperature on the probability of excreting five different carbonate polymorphs. Estimates are medians (circles), 50% credible intervals (CIs; thick lines; some are too narrow to be seen) and 95% CIs (thin lines) derived from 6000 posterior draws of a Bayesian multivariate hurdle-lognormal 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. Missing estimates correspond to effects excluded from the final model (see the “Statistical modelling” section). LMC Low-magnesium calcite, HMC High-magnesium calcite, MHC Monohydrocalcite, ACMC Amorphous calcium magnesium carbonate. Data underlying the figures are available in the Zenodo repository (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7530455)93.

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