Figure 2. Linear regression analysis of microbialization scores versus NCEAS cumulative human impact values (y = 8.19 x – 26.10; r2 = 0.68).
The microbialization score is the percentage of the combined fish and microbial predicted metabolic rate that is microbial. Color denotes oceanographic region: Guam and the Mariana Islands (orange circles), the Main Hawaiian Islands (blue circles), Pacific Remote Islands and Atolls (pink circles), and the Samoa region (green circles). For island abbreviations see Table 1.