Climate Warming, Marine Protected Areas and the Ocean-Scale Integrity of Coral Reef Ecosystems
Figure 2
Change in coral cover and reef structural complexity.
(A) Change in live coral cover at meaningful biogeographical aggregations and by management strategy. Three habitat types in Seychelles each replicated in the two NTAs. Kenyan protected represents four NTAs. Bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals indicate whether mean change departs significantly from zero. Locations ordered by magnitude of coral decline. (B) Correlation between change in live coral cover and change in structural complexity across the region. • Mafia Island, ◊ Seychelles, ▴ Chagos, ▪ Maldives, ♦ Kenya, ▵ Tanzania.