Fig. 3

Mean percent cover of main benthic categories across ARMS plate faces. Stacked column chart representing the mean percent cover of the 13 main benthic categories across all ARMS plate faces. Categories are ordered by decreasing relative abundance (except for bare plate and sediment). The chart illustrates the distribution of both biotic and abiotic cover types within the ARMS communities. The labels ‘6 mo’, ‘1 yr’, ‘2 yr’ appears in red for triplicates deployed in the hot season and in blue for those deployed in the cool season.