Figure 1. Effects of treatments on coral growth.

Comparisons of growth rates (means ± SE) between corals competing with one of five macroalgal species vs. control corals. Each algal treatment in the block design had its own paired controls that had no algae. The number of controls were constant among treatments except when lost due to storm damage; in that instance the corresponding control was removed from the analysis. Statistics are from paired t-tests. P-values are based on Bonferroni-Holm correction for multiple comparisons with the controls. * p<0.05.