Figure 2

Density of Scarus trispinosus’ (A) juveniles and (B) adults in the Abrolhos Bank reefs. ITAC Itacolomis reefs (1); TIMB Timbebas reefs (2); PPAR Parcel das Paredes reefs (3); SEBG Sebastião Gomes reefs (4); ARCH Abrolhos Archipelago (5); PABR Parcel dos Abrolhos reefs (6). Different colors indicate different Marine Protected Areas. Different letters indicate significant differences at a 5% significance level. Permutation-based ANOVA, Degrees of Freedom = 5, Iter = 5000, p-value = 0.001, (A) Juveniles—sum of squares = 87.13, mean sum of squares = 17.426; (B) Adults—sum of squares = 66.17, mean sum of squares = 13.23. SE standard error. Please note that graphs within this plate are in different scales to accommodate and represent variation between juveniles’ and adults’ densities. Graphs were plotted using the package “yarrr”33 in the R software31.