Fig 1.
Blue cells are rasterized coral reef cells derived from the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC) coral reef database [48]. Green cells are land-masked cells based on the Global HYCOM [49] and gray lines refer to the coast line.
Table 1.
Early life history characteristics of model organisms.
Empirical values were based on the representative organisms.
Fig 2.
Fitted power law functions from dispersal kernels of each model organism.
Dark gray dots are the mean settlement probability (Pset) of each source-to-sink distance (dist) with gray areas showing the standard deviation. Note that the axes are in log scale and the limits of the y-axis varies. Verticals lines show the distance of connections at the median (dotted) and at 95th percentile (dashed) of connections.
Fig 3.
Comparison of connectivity metric distributions between organisms.
All distributions were significantly different (p < 0.001). Am: Acropora millepora, Tg: Tripneustes gratilla, E: Epinephelus sp. Boxes display the first and third quartile spread of the data, the central line indicates the median, and the whiskers and outliers denote the range of values.
Table 2.
Pearson correlation coefficients of the connectivity metric of each reef cell between model organisms.
All correlations were significant (p-values < 0.001).
Table 3.
Pearson correlation coefficients of the connectivity metric values of each reef cell between different temporal matrices for each model organism.
All correlations were significant (p-values < 0.001).
Fig 4.
Variability of mean direction of exports at each reef cell.
(A) shows the average standard deviation between seasons, (B) shows the average standard deviation between years. Areas marked with * indicate reefs of high variability mentioned in the text.
Table 4.
Clustering details at various minimum cluster size (MCS) parameter values.
The size of clusters was measured by the number of reef cells included in the cluster.
Fig 5.
Clusters of covarying connectivity patterns based on the Bray-Curtis Dissimilarity matrix of the source and sink connections of the three model organisms.
The dendrogram was cut at (A) MCS = 100 and (B) MCS = 5. Each color represents a unique cluster. Reefs boxed in gray were outliers excluded from the clustering. Clusters identified in (A) are (1) Northern Luzon and Taiwan, (2) Philippine internal seas and San Bernardino Strait, (3) Bohol Sea and Surigao Strait, (4) Northern Sulu Sea, (5) Central Sulu Sea, (6) Southern Sulu Sea, (7) Celebes Sea, (8) Vietnam and Paracel Islands, (9) Western Luzon, (10) Northwestern Palawan, (11) Southwestern Palawan, (12) Northern Spratly Islands, and (13) Southern Spratly Islands and Western Borneo.