Fig 1.
Shallow (A) and deep (B) reefs and studied coral species Montastraea cavernosa (C) and Siderastrea stellata (D). Photos–Pedro Pereira”.
Fig 2.
Substratum coverage (mean average ± SD) between shallow and deep reefs in northeastern Brazil.
Fig 3.
PCA analysis with substratum coverage considering shallow and deep reefs in northeastern Brazil.
Fig 4.
Chlorophyll a (Chl a) concentration, lipid peroxidation (LPO) and Ca-ATPase activity in the corals Montastraea cavernosa and Siderastrea stellata collected in shallow and deep reefs in northeastern Brazil.
Fig 5.
Reef fish abundance (A) and species richness (B) on shallow and deep reefs in northeastern Brazil. Box plots show the interquartile range, with whiskers indicating the respective confidence intervals. The horizontal lines indicate median values and circles represent the outliers of the total length that presented greater variability.
Table 1.
Reef fish community results of the two-way nested PERMANOVA with factor “Site” nested within factor “Depth”.
Posteriori pair-wise tests results for the factor “Site(Depth)” are also shown.
Fig 6.
Multidimensional scaling (MDS) comparing reef fish communities in shallow and deep reefs in northeastern Brazil.
Table 2.
SIMPER results of dispersion-based weighting data of reef fish species with an overall contribution greater than 50% to the dissimilarity between shallow and deep reefs.
Fig 7.
Trophic groups when comparing reef fish assemblages in shallow and deep reefs in northeastern Brazil.
Macrocarnivore (MCAR); Mobile invertebrate feeders (MIF); Omnivores (OMN); Piscivores (PIS); Planktivores (PLK); Sessile Invertebrates Feeders (SIF); Roving Herbivores (ROVH) and Territorialist Herbivores (TERH).
Fig 8.
Groups of interest and their respective size classes when comparing reef fish assemblages in shallow and deep reefs in northeastern Brazil.
Gray bars = shallow reefs and dark bars = deeper reefs.