Fig. 7
From: Depth drive shifts in the fish and benthic assemblages of the South American Reef System
Transformation-based Redundancy Analysis (tbRDA) of the benthic and fish assemblages recorded at eight studied reefs (circles 1 to 8) on the continental shelf of the Brazilian semiarid coast off Ceará, Brazil, in the southwestern Atlantic. The variable selection procedure identified the depth of reef as the most prominent explanatory factor, which supported a statistically significant model for the benthos (F = 4.06, p = 0.04, adjusted R2 = 0.47), in particular along the first axis (RDA1). The significance of this pattern was reflected in the much clearer differences visible in the panel on the left. Fish abbreviations on Table S5 (Supplementary Material).
