Fig. 2
From: Benthic communities on restored coral reefs confer equivalent aesthetic value to healthy reefs
Aesthetic rating of benthic habitat. (a) Examples of photographs with varying predicted aesthetic ratings, spanning from 508.9 (lowest aesthetic rating) to 2588.4 (highest aesthetic rating). The top row are the photographs with the three highest predicted aesthetic ratings; the second row are photographs with intermediate predicted aesthetic ratings; and the third row are the photographs with the three lowest predicted aesthetic ratings. In each photograph, the aesthetic rating is given in the corner, with the background colour indicating whether the photograph is from a healthy (dark blue), restored (light blue), or degraded (grey) habitat. (b) Predicted aesthetic ratings of photographs from healthy, restored, and degraded reefs. Each point represents the modelled aesthetic rating of one photograph, and boxplots represent the median (central line), interquartile range (boxes) and full range (whiskers) of the data. A linear mixed model revealed a significant effect of habitat type on aesthetic rating (p < 0.001); different letters represent significant differences in Tukey’s HSD post-hoc testing. For details of full models, see Table S8 in Supplementary Information.
