Table 2.

Summary of each reef fish group with model parameters selected for bootstrap boosted regression tree analysis using the gbm step method

Model	Species Group	Stage	Metric	Level	Ave Trees	95% CI Trees	Ave CV Deviance	95% CI CV Deviance
1	Surgeonfishes	Adult	Biomass	Crest	4,406	573, 10,000	0.51	0.15, 0.87
2	Surgeonfishes	Adult	Biomass	Slope	7,123	800, 10,000	0.27	0.07, 0.74
3	Surgeonfishes	Adult	Density	Crest	4,457	873, 10,000	0.71	0.45, 0.87
4	Surgeonfishes	Adult	Density	Slope	8,444	992, 10,000	0.50	0.07, 0.89
5	Butterflyfishes	Adult	Biomass	Crest	3,376	450, 10,000	0.61	0.35, 0.89
6	Butterflyfishes	Adult	Biomass	Slope	6,317	600, 10,000	0.34	0.07, 0.75
7	Butterflyfishes	Adult	Density	Crest	6,904	2,595, 10,000	0.63	0.45, 0.73
8	Butterflyfishes	Adult	Density	Slope	3,444	400, 9,702	0.60	0.29, 0.85
9	Scarus	Adult	Biomass	Crest	7,947	1,245, 10,000	0.31	0.06, 0.59
10	Scarus	Adult	Biomass	Slope	6,716	892, 10,000	0.31	0.02, 0.57
11	Scarus	Adult	Density	Crest	6,861	1,390, 10,000	0.29	0.02, 0.58
12	Scarus	Adult	Density	Slope	8,614	1,100, 10,000	0.33	0.02, 0.59
13	Scarus	Juvenile	Density	Crest	2,972	523, 9,760	0.69	0.45, 0.84
14	Scarus	Juvenile	Density	Slope	2,265	400, 9,155	0.52	0.23, 0.74
15	Chlorurus	Adult	Biomass	Crest	3,134	300, 10,000	0.41	0.07, 0.74
16	Chlorurus	Adult	Biomass	Slope	4,145	397, 10,000	0.46	0.15, 0.78
17	Chlorurus	Adult	Density	Crest	2,720	300, 9,160	0.35	0.1, 0.64
18	Chlorurus	Adult	Density	Slope	3,789	621, 10,000	0.48	0.06, 0.82
19	Chlorurus	Juvenile	Density	Crest	3,691	261, 10,000	0.31	0.02, 0.65
20	Chlorurus	Juvenile	Density	Slope	1,404	205, 9,895	0.24	0.01, 0.6
21	Wrasses	Adult	Biomass	Crest	7,712	4,206, 10,000	0.71	0.42, 0.91
22	Wrasses	Adult	Biomass	Slope	5,296	370, 10,000	0.64	0.35, 0.89
23	Wrasses	Adult	Density	Crest	7,577	2,407, 10,000	0.28	0.06, 0.52
24	Wrasses	Adult	Density	Slope	4,792	600, 10,000	0.51	0.09, 0.78
25	Wrasses	Juvenile	Density	Crest	4,264	1,182, 9,730	0.62	0.35, 0.85
26	Wrasses	Juvenile	Density	Slope	4,955	1,250, 10,000	0.49	0.16, 0.79
27	Damselfishes	Adult	Density	Crest	3,306	300, 9,976	0.55	0.17, 0.86
28	Damselfishes	Adult	Density	Slope	2,847	423, 6,126	0.74	0.36, 0.95
29	Snappers	Adult	Presence	Crest	4,431	1,340, 10,000	0.29	0.07, 0.56
30	Snappers	Adult	Presence	Slope	1744	650, 3,347	0.44	0.22, 0.72
31	Groupers	Adult	Presence	Crest	1719	450, 4,076	0.50	0.26, 0.8
32	Groupers	Adult	Presence	Slope	1,373	371, 4,008	0.40	0.18, 0.71

Mean trees and Mean CV deviance are reported values from the bootstrap (sample and replacement) process with their upper and lower 95% confidence limits.