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Table 2 Estimated annual trend u, and upper and lower 95% confidence intervals generated by MARSS using annual mean biomass for (a) each family and (b) each species.

From: Declining abundance of coral reef fish in a World-Heritage-listed marine park

	Pooled				SZ					RZ
	u	Lower CI	Upper CI	p-Time	u	Lower CI	Upper CI	p-Time	p-Zone	u	Lower CI	Upper CI	p-Time	p-Zone
(a)
Scaridae	−0.038	−0.164	0.082	0.123	−0.043	−0.178	0.098	0.192	0.408	−0.027	−0.164	0.114	0.273	0.307
Labridae	−0.151	−0.214	−0.086	0.001	-0.182	−0.315	−0.065	0.001	0.204	−0.144	−0.225	−0.06	0.002	0.253
Acanthuridae	−0.019	−0.114	0.069	0.344	−0.036	−0.154	0.08	0.297	0.409	0.001	−0.131	0.151	0.458	0.239
Chaetodontidae	−0.11	−0.185	−0.038	0.001	−0.127	−0.208	−0.038	0.001	0.163	−0.097	−0.174	−0.021	0.002	0.192
Siganidae	−0.173	−0.476	0.151	0.082	−0.16	−0.498	0.159	0.174	0.278	−0.378	−0.769	−0.025	0.005	0.035
Lethrinidae	−0.166	−0.226	−0.106	0.001	−0.191	−0.254	−0.128	0.001	0.251	−0.112	−0.275	0.05	0.033	0.026
(b)
Chlorurus sordidus	−0.016	−0.144	0.124	0.315	−0.031	−0.207	0.142	0.261	0.199	0.007	-0.124	0.145	0.374	0.161
Acanthurus triostegus	−0.133	−0.296	0.035	0.013	−0.089	−0.273	0.101	0.115	0.143	−0.201	−0.342	−0.072	0.004	0.028
Coris aygula	−0.159	−0.254	-0.071	0.001	−0.168	−0.261	−0.084	0.003	0.48	−0.146	−0.229	−0.06	0.024	0.307
Siganus nebulosus	−0.181	−0.502	0.131	0.086	−0.157	−0.503	0.148	0.178	0.24	−0.388	−0.784	−0.02	0.001	0.025
Lethrinus atkinsoni	−0.161	−0.21	−0.108	0.001	−0.185	−0.236	−0.131	0.001	0.257	−0.104	−0.261	0.063	0.046	0.026
Chaetodon plebeius	−0.14	−0.187	−0.088	0.001	−0.159	−0.278	−0.032	0.001	0.194	−0.121	−0.177	−0.065	0.001	0.159

Bold font indicates estimates with 95% confidence intervals not overlapping zero, and so robust evidence of a declining trend.

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