Fig 7. Stock-recruitment relationship between the abundance of individual mature coral colonies and coral recruits in permanent plots depending on whether the colonies (a) brood larvae or (b) spawn unfertilised gametes.

Closed circles represent samples from the reef flat and open circles from the reef slope. Recruit density was standardised to the area of available settlement substrata in the permanent plot (see Methods for available and unavailable settlement substrate classifications). Note the different scales on x and y axes.