Table 2. Abundance (mean percent cover) of the top 10 hard corals across reef habitats (patch reef, backreef and forereef) and forereef depths (5, 10, 20 m) at Kingman Reef.
The relative contribution of each genus to overall hard coral cover is shown (Rel). Corals in bold make up ≥50% of overall hard coral cover. For complete cover values for all hard coral genera see Table S1.
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| Patch Reef - 10 m | Backreef - 10 m | 5 m | 10 m | 20 m | ||||||||||
| Genus | Mean cover | Rel | Genus | Mean cover | Rel | Genus | Mean cover | Rel | Genus | Mean cover | Rel | Genus | Mean cover | Rel |
| Porites | 50.6 | 88.5 | Porites | 20.7 | 79.6 | Acropora | 13.7 | 37.1 | Acropora | 25.2 | 44.8 | Porites | 10.7 | 33.0 |
| Fungia | 3.2 | 5.6 | Fungia | 1.3 | 5.0 | Pocillopora | 8.0 | 21.7 | Pocillopora | 9.5 | 16.9 | Favia | 6.0 | 18.5 |
| Favia | 1.3 | 2.3 | Acropora | 1.2 | 4.6 | Porites | 5.0 | 13.6 | Porites | 7.3 | 13.0 | Pocillopora | 3.8 | 11.7 |
| Pocillopora | 0.9 | 1.6 | Favia | 1.0 | 3.8 | Montipora | 3.7 | 10.0 | Montipora | 5.7 | 10.1 | Acropora | 3.0 | 9.3 |
| Pavona | 0.5 | 0.9 | Turbinaria | 0.9 | 3.5 | Pavona | 2.1 | 5.7 | Pavona | 2.3 | 4.1 | Lobophyllia | 2.5 | 7.7 |
| Montipora | 0.3 | 0.5 | Montipora | 0.4 | 1.5 | Favia | 1.2 | 3.3 | Favia | 2.3 | 4.1 | Pavona | 1.1 | 3.4 |
| Stylophora | 0.2 | 0.3 | Herpolitha | 0.1 | 0.4 | Leptastrea | 1.0 | 2.7 | Hydnophora | 1.3 | 2.3 | Montipora | 0.9 | 2.8 |
| Astreopora | 0.03 | 0.1 | Pavona | 0.1 | 0.4 | Montastrea | 1.0 | 2.7 | Stylophora | 0.6 | 1.1 | Platygyra | 0.8 | 2.5 |
| Platygyra | 0.03 | 0.1 | Favites | 0.09 | 0.3 | Favites | 0.5 | 1.4 | Favites | 0.6 | 1.1 | Fungia | 0.7 | 2.2 |
| Montastrea | 0.02 | 0.0 | Astreopora | 0.04 | 0.2 | Hydnophora | 0.3 | 0.8 | Platygyra | 0.3 | 0.5 | Leptastrea | 0.5 | 1.5 |