Table 6. Proportion of predicted habitat (higher values indicate more suitable) in relation to different substrate type for each taxa.
| Habitat suitability | |||||
| Sediment type | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Alcyoniina | |||||
| Hard | 6.8% | 7.5% | 10.4% | 12.2% | 13.9% |
| Mixed | 1.2% | 1.4% | 1.0% | 0.6% | 0.3% |
| Soft | 91.9% | 91.1% | 88.6% | 87.1% | 85.7% |
| Antipatharia | |||||
| Hard | 6.6% | 16.7% | 25.8% | 33.3% | - |
| Mixed | 1.2% | 1.5% | 0.2% | 0% | - |
| Soft | 92.2% | 81.8% | 74.1% | 66.7% | - |
| Calcaxonia | |||||
| Hard | 6.7% | 7.9% | 8.6% | 12.3% | 22.8% |
| Mixed | 1.1% | 1.6% | 1.5% | 0.8% | 0.4% |
| Soft | 92.1% | 90.5% | 89.9% | 86.9% | 76.8% |
| Holaxonia | |||||
| Hard | 7.5% | 6.5% | 9.4% | 13.1% | 12.3% |
| Mixed | 0.5% | 4.3% | 2.4% | 4.1% | 1.0% |
| Soft | 92.0% | 89.2% | 88.2% | 82.8% | 86.7% |
| Scleractinia | |||||
| Hard | 8.1% | 5.9% | 6.2% | 9.4% | - |
| Mixed | 0.7% | 5.9% | 2.7% | 1.8% | - |
| Soft | 91.1% | 88.2% | 91.1% | 88.7% | - |
| Scleraxonia | |||||
| Hard | 7.2% | 7.2% | 9.5% | 16.4% | 26.3% |
| Mixed | 1.1% | 1.3% | 0.8% | 2.3% | 0.1% |
| Soft | 91.7% | 91.5% | 89.7% | 81.3% | 73.6% |
| All Taxa –0.5 | |||||
| Hard | 7.0% | 6.6% | 8.8% | 9.4% | 12.9% |
| Mixed | 0.7% | 2.2% | 2.2% | 2.7% | 1.3% |
| Soft | 92.4% | 91.2% | 89.0% | 87.9% | 85.8% |
| All Taxa –0.75 | |||||
| Hard | 7.3% | 17.1% | 20.1% | 22.7% | 15.4% |
| Mixed | 1.1% | 2.4% | 2.1% | 2.1% | 0.6% |
| Soft | 91.6% | 80.5% | 77.9% | 75.2% | 84.1% |