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From: Long-term impacts of rising sea temperature and sea level on shallow water coral communities over a ~40 year period

Figure 5

(A) Ordination by non-metric multidimensional scaling (nMDS) of Bray Curtis similarities among averaged coral species level cover within site-year combinations. Calculations used average square-root transformed present cover data from i) Site A (2d stress = 0.15); ii) Site B (2d stress = 0.14); iii) Site C (2d stress = 0.09); and iv) Site C omitting data from 1998 (2d stress = 0.13). Labels indicate years 1983–2018; 10B indicates repeat survey undertaken during month of peak bleaching in 2010. (B) Ordination (nMDS) as in A overlaid with representations of branching coral species abundance. Plots of i) Site A, ii) Site B iii) Site C and iv) Site C omitting 1998 with overlaid bubbles scaled in size in proportion to the total percent cover of three branching species namely Acropora aspera, Montipora digitata and Pocillopora damicornis in each survey (see key).

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