Figure 3.

Coral community composition of the back- and fore-reef zones for the studied sites between sampling years. Non-metric multi-dimensional scaling analysis displaying degree of similarity of the community composition across 18 sites in the northern part of the Mexican Caribbean for the coral cover by species. The circles represent the sites from 1985 and the triangles the ones from 2016. The black colour stands for the back-reef zone and the grey one for the fore-reef. Dotted lines: convex hull total area (TA). Solid lines: standard ellipse area corrected for small sample sizes (SEAc).