Extinction Debt and Colonizer Credit on a Habitat Perturbed Fishing Bank
Fig 4
Mean species richness per station on Georges Bank from the trawl survey with the 164 species dataset.
The dashed line is a significant (r2 = 0.27, p = 0.0001) straight line (least squares fit) through the data while the solid line is a smoothed curve (spline) through the data.