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Table 1. Information on coral juvenile abundances and percentage hard coral cover at Aldabra between 2014 and 2019.
Asterisks indicate significant differences between years; n.a. = not available.
| Measure | Location | Water depth | Pre-bleachinga 2014/15 |
Post-bleaching 2016 |
Post-bleaching 2019 |
% Change 2014/15–2016 | % Change 2016–2019 | % Recoveryb | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SE | Mean | SE | Mean | SE | ||||||
| Coral | West | Shallow | 20.6 | 1.9 | 8.3 | 1.0 | 21.4 | 1.9 | -60* | 61* | 104 |
| Juveniles | West | Deep | 14.3 | 5.1 | 7.7 | 0.8 | 22.9 | 1.8 | -46 | 66* | 160 |
| (no. m-2) | East | Shallow | 8.3 | 0.8 | 7.9 | 1.0 | 24.1 | 2.6 | -6 | 67* | 290 |
| East | Deep | 11.5 | 2.7 | 5.5 | 1.0 | 16.6 | 1.9 | -52* | 67* | 144 | |
| Lagoon | Shallow | n.a. | n.a. | 7.7 | 1.6 | 29.9 | 5.3 | n.a | 74* | n.a | |
| Coral | West | Shallow | 34.1 | 2.9 | 15.9 | 1.8 | 23.7 | 2.0 | -53* | 33* | 69 |
| cover | West | Deep | 20.8 | 1.9 | 8.6 | 1.0 | 13.6 | 1.2 | -59* | 37 | 65 |
| (%)c | East | Shallow | 23.6 | 4.2 | 9.7 | 0.8 | 12.5 | 1.5 | -59* | 22* | 53 |
| East | Deep | 10.1 | 2.9 | 5.1 | 1.1 | 5.0 | 1.2 | -49* | -0.02 | 55 | |
| Lagoon | Shallow | 32.3 | 5.0 | 19.6 | 4.5 | 30.0 | 4.7 | -39 | 35* | 93 | |
a 2014: Coral cover; 2015: Coral juveniles
b Percentage of pre-bleaching value reached in 2019
c Significant changes based on previous work conducted at Aldabra [34]; note, displayed here are mean coral cover values and the respective percentage changes and not back-transformed model estimates and the respective percentage changes shown in previous study [34].
Reference
- 1.Koester A, Ford AK, Ferse SCA, Migani V, Bunbury N, Sanchez C, et al. (2021) First insights into coral recruit and juvenile abundances at remote Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles. PloS ONE 16(12): e0260516. 10.1371/journal.pone.0260516 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
