Fig. 3: Retention and recovery of coral thermal tolerance across two Acropora species.
From: Species-specific retention vs. recovery of coral thermal tolerance following nursery propagation
Colony-specific and population-level thermal tolerance thresholds (mean ± S.E.M) relative to the maximum monthly mean temperature of the study site (relative ED50 = ED50 – MMM; MMM = 30.52 °C based on in situ interpolation of NOAA’s climatology data) are shown for each site-condition group (i.e., condition – nursery coral vs. reef-based donor, S1 – site 1, S2 – site 2) of a Acropora florida and b Acropora cytherea corals. Annotated letters highlight significant differences (at significance level p < 0.05) between groups following pairwise comparison (pairwise two-tail t-tests or signed non-parametric Wilcoxon test, see methods). Dots represent individual coral colony data points.
