Fig 4. Results of coral recruit study.

(A) Coral recruit abundances overall and at each site. Values represent mean abundance for each taxon and in total, SE is displayed for total mean abundance only. Secondary y-axis indicates number of coral recruits per tile. Note the different y-axis scaling. Letters indicate significant differences (p < 0.05) between study periods (see S4 Table). (B) Mean (± SE) monthly water temperature during December 2013–Dec 2019 at the seaward western site and during February 2015–November 2018 at the lagoonal site where technical issues prevented the inclusion of data until December 2019. Horizontal dashed lines indicate month of settlement tile change-over.