Table 2 Pearson’s correlation coefficients (r) and levels of significance (p) for the correlations between the Years Before Present and age, years of experience, and number of dives.

From: Shifting baseline syndrome among coral reef scientists

How many years past (if any) would you use as the ecological baseline for the cover percentage for stony corals in the Florida Keys as a guide for setting restoration targets (on average throughout the keys, bank reef, and buttress zone at a depth of 10 m)?

 

r

p

n

YBP vs. age

−0.074

0.607

51

YBP vs. years of experience

0.098

0.493

51

YBP vs. number of dives

0.085

0.559

50

  1. No correlations were significant at p = 0.05.