Figure 3
Temporal variation in (A,B) areal extent of live tissue across all branching corals and C–H) mean number of fishes per colony (± SE). Data is presented separately (in A,C,E,G) for colonies that died (consumed; red lines) versus survived (green lines) in experimental plots where starfish persisted and consumed at least some of the corals, and for the Lagoon plot (control; blue lines) where there was no mortality of branching corals throughout the study. All data is then aggregated (in B,D,F,H) to test for overall changes in habitat availability and density of fishes, as per separate analyses in Table 2.
