Fig. 2: Reef fish year-to-year dissimilarity (β diversity) across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and the latitudinal sectors. | Nature Communications

Fig. 2: Reef fish year-to-year dissimilarity (β diversity) across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and the latitudinal sectors.

From: Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef

Fig. 2

Predicted values of the long-term changes in the reef fish turnover of 92 reefs with three sites each per year from hierarchical generalised additive mixed models (HGAM) according to the year-to-year dissimilarity across a the entire GBR and c individual latitudinal sectors. Shading bands in a and c represent 95% CIs. Predicted values from the generalised linear mixed model (GLMM) are shown in b for each time interval in the GBR. Number of reefs per period in b: 1995–2000 (n reefs = 46), 2001–2005 (n reefs = 46), 2006–2010 (n reefs = 92), 2011–2015 (n reefs = 92), and 2016–2022 (n reefs = 92). Vertical dashed lined in a and c represent time intervals depicted in b. Predicted values from the HGAM are shown in d for the whole temporal series of each latitudinal sector. Points in b and d represent the mean of the predicted values and lines represent the 95% CIs. Latitudinal sectors are arranged in descending order from north to south and in colours from red to blue, respectively. Codes and number of reefs sampled for each latitudinal sector are: Cooktown/ Lizard Island (CL, n reefs = 8), Cairns (CA, n reefs = 11), Innisfail (IN, n reefs = 7), Townsville (TO, n reefs = 18), Whitsunday (WH, n reefs = 9), Pompey (PO, n reefs = 12), Swain (SW, n reefs = 17) and Capricorn‐Bunker (CB, n reefs = 10). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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