Fig. 8
From: Depth drive shifts in the fish and benthic assemblages of the South American Reef System
Plots of the predictive co-correspondence analysis (CoCA) between the composition of benthic (as predictor) and fish (as response) assemblages of the eight reefs surveyed on the Brazilian semiarid continental shelf. Only the first CoCA axis was statistically significant (stat = 0.39, p = 0.02). Species situated in similar positions relative to the origin in each panel show positive associations. Note that the two groups have a similar ordination, i.e., concave downward along the composition gradients, reflecting a certain degree of relationship between the two biotic strata. Fish abbreviations on Table S5 (Supplementary Material).
