Fig 1.
Location of the study site within Moreton Bay Region, South East Coast Queensland, Australia (Left panel).
Point Lookout dive sites offshore of North Stradbroke Island are indicated by the white box, (Right Panel) the offshore dive sites at Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island with Marine Park zonation marked in red and green. The study transect locations are indicated in yellow. Source background image: Landsat Thematic Mapper 5, USGS (http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov).
Table 1.
Seasonal marine flora and fauna surveys conducted in 2014 for each transect location at Point Lookout, Australia.
Table 2.
Indicator categories for fish, invertebrates, substrate and reef impacts, modified from comparable surveys [4, 35, 36].
Fig 2.
The habitat map created for Shag Rock, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island, Australia using GIS data and significant feature recording of the benthos. GIS data are available online [44].
Fig 3.
Benthic composition of the Point Lookout transect sites derived from a photo transect approach.
(a.) Substrate cover type for each of the five transects at, Shag Rock, Flat Rock and Manta Ray Bommie averaged over the four seasons, and (b.) Substrate cover type per site for each season.
Fig 4.
Indicator invertebrates—urchins.
Average abundance of indicator urchins for all Point Lookout sites. Error bars indicate standard deviation.
Table 3.
Statistical tables for representative invertebrate linear models testing Site, Season, and their interaction (Site:Season).
Table 4.
Post-hoc multiple comparison of reef impacts per site.
Sites were statistically different (Pseudo F = 5.2309, p = 0.018).
Fig 5.
Reef Impacts for each of the Point Lookout dive sites.
Normalised cumulative abundance of reef impacts weighted by coral cover per site across surveys.
Fig 6.
Coral Health at Point Lookout.
The average coral health observed for each season based on CoralWatch coral health chart readings at the five transect sites at Point Lookout, Australia. The error bars represent the range of the average dark to average light scores that were recorded.
Fig 7.
Seasonal changes of different trophic groups of fish.
Seasonal abundance (+- SD) of predators, corallivores and omnivores, invertivores and herbivores averaged for each season at the Point Lookout Dive Sites.
Table 5.
Statistical tables for seasonal fish analyses Linear Models testing Site, Season, and their interaction (Site:Season).