Fig. 4: Relative intestinal length affects reef fish carbonate composition. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Relative intestinal length affects reef fish carbonate composition.

From: Temperature, species identity and morphological traits predict carbonate excretion and mineralogy in tropical reef fishes

Fig. 4: Relative intestinal length affects reef fish carbonate composition.

Marginal effect of species relative intestinal length (RIL) on the excretion rate of five different carbonate polymorphs after controlling for the remaining fixed and group-level effects of a Bayesian multivariate hurdle-lognormal model by standardising the other predictors at their mean values. Coloured lines represent the median predicted fits and the ribbons show the 50%, 80%, and 95% credible intervals (CI) around the estimate. Note the different scales on the y-axis. Scanning electron microscope images showing representative crystalline morphologies for each carbonate polymorphs are displayed on the right of each plot. LMC Low-magnesium calcite, HMC High-magnesium calcite, MHC Monohydrocalcite, ACMC Amorphous calcium magnesium carbonate. Data underlying the figures are available in the Zenodo repository (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7530455)93.

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