Fig. 2: Diet and length-weight relationships of common mesopredatory teleosts at the Scott Reefs and the Rowley Shoals.
From: Predator removals, trophic cascades and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish on coral reefs
Diets are shown in pie charts as % abundance in gut contents and length-weight relationships are shown as log-scaled scatterplots. Pie charts and plots show results for the common mesopredatory teleosts, Lutjanus gibbus (A-C), L. decussatus (D-F) and L. bohar (G-I) for the Scott Reefs (fished) and the Rowley Shoals (unfished marine protected area). In pie charts, components of the diet that are pelagic in origin are coloured in shades of blue, benthic components are tan shades. Arrow shows asteroids as a component of the diet. Solid lines in plots are least squares regression relationships between log-scaled data. Data points are coloured red from the Scott Reefs and green from the Rowley Shoals. Data replotted from Barley et al.15.
