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. 2012 Mar 30;7(3):e34459. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034459

Table 2. Phylogenetic signal of IUCN Red List categories and traits of reef corals.

Category/trait Proportion of species D P for H0: D = 0 P for H0: D = 1
Endangered and above 0.032 1.096±0.063 <0.001 0.780
Vulnerable and above 0.269 0.960±0.023 <0.001 0.167
Near Threatened and above 0.477 0.853±0.018 <0.001 <0.001
moderately or highly susceptible to bleaching 0.419 0.229±0.010 <0.001 <0.001
moderately or highly resistant to bleaching 0.116 0.300±0.023 0.001 <0.001
moderately or highly susceptible to disease 0.310 0.124±0.012 0.024 <0.001
moderately or highly resistant to disease 0.058 −0.172±0.015 0.887 <0.001
recovers quickly from bleaching or disease 0.134 0.125±0.013 0.068 <0.001
moderately or highly susceptible to crown-of-thorns seastar predation 0.273 0.052±0.011 0.180 <0.001
restricted or highly fragmented range 0.124 1.136±0.037 <0.001 0.973
reported collection of > 1000 pieces per year 0.157 0.630±0.021 <0.001 <0.001

Results based on D, a measure of total sister-clade disparities on the phylogeny (± SD; 0 for clumped traits, 1 for random traits). Numbers in bold denote non-significant results (i.e. not different from 0 or 1).