Extended Data Fig. 2: Recruitment of corals over time.
From: Global warming impairs stock–recruitment dynamics of corals
The shared lettering (A–C) indicates recruit densities in each year that are statistically indistinguishable, based on an analysis of variance with Bonferroni-corrected Tukey’s post hoc test. Horizontal lines show the median, boxes indicate the middle two quartiles, vertical lines indicate the first and fourth quartiles, and data points are outliers. a, Box plots show recruit density per settlement panel (n = 30, 55, 44, 125, 126 and 118 panels in 1996, 1997, 1998, 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively) on Lizard Island Reef in the northern Great Barrier Reef, before and after mass mortality of established corals in March 2016 (after the retrieval of settlement panels in January 2016). Most values for 2017 are zero, causing the box plots to collapse. b, Box plots show average recruit density per panel on the Great Barrier Reef in 1996, 1997 and 2018 (n = 15 reefs per year, in 5 latitudinal sectors). The same 15 reefs were resampled in 1996 and 2018; see Fig. 1c.
