Fig. 5
From: Split spawning increases robustness of coral larval supply and inter-reef connectivity
Effects of split spawning on the reliability of larval supply over time. Prolongation of the period during which supply fails without split spawning (a) by sector, and (b) as a continuous map. To guide interpretation, if a reef experienced two consecutive years of failed larval supply and split spawning prevented it from experiencing a third, then the ‘additional consecutive years of supply failure’ would be 1. The maximum number of consecutive years in all analyses was 7. The colours of the boxes in (a) correspond to the colour scheme of the GBR sectors shown in the inset in (b). In the boxplot, the centre line represents the median, the upper and lower limits of the box represent the third and first quartile respectively, the notches in the boxes represent the confidence interval around the median (equal to ±1.58 times interquartile range divided by square root of the sample size), the whiskers extend up to 1.5 times the interquartile range from the bounds of the box, and the points represent outliers beyond the limits of the whiskers. In (b) blue hues show reefs that would not have a prolonged period of supply failure without split spawning, and red hues show the reefs that would have up to 5 additional consecutive years of supply failure without split spawning
