Appendix C. Details of statistical tests used to address hypotheses associated with population surveys, the demographic study, and the manipulative experiment; a table of describing all treatment factors used, ANOVAs, and multiple regression; and a table of ANOVA results.

Details of statistical tests used to address hypotheses associated with population surveys, the demographic study, and the manipulative experiment; a table of describing all treatment factors used, ANOVAs, and multiple regression; and a table of ANOVA results

Appendix B. Methods used for environmental measurements made during the field experiment and a description of the predator exclusion cages.

Methods used for environmental measurements made during the field experiment and a description of the predator exclusion cages

Appendix A. Details of sampling sites, position of sampling sites, description and photo of biozones in Moorea’s lagoon, and details of the biotic and abiotic attributes of coral bommies.

Details of sampling sites, position of sampling sites, description and photo of biozones in Moorea’s lagoon, and details of the biotic and abiotic attributes of coral bommies

Appendix D. A table showing the mean percentage of the branching corals Pocillopora verrucosa and Acropora retusa of three size classes found on bommies or the seafloor in the three major lagoon habitats.

A table showing the mean percentage of the branching corals Pocillopora verrucosa and Acropora retusa of three size classes found on bommies or the seafloor in the three major lagoon habitats

Appendix C. Coral colony size frequency distribution.

Coral colony size frequency distribution

Appendix E. Total prey colonization.

Total prey colonization

Appendix A. Trophic level assignments from surveys.

Trophic level assignments from surveys

Appendix B. Reef configuration.

Reef configuration

Appendix D. Predation and rarefaction.

Predation and rarefaction

Canonical analysis of principal coordinates (CAP) ordination plot (Bray-Curtis) of fish assemblage data for each experimental treatment at each geographic location.

<p>Each point represents a separate patch reef, and the (color-coded) shaded clusters are dispersion ellipses for the 6 different single coral (low habitat diversity) treatments. The outlined dispersion ellipses represent the confidence limits for the 3-species (medium) and 6-species (high) treatments. N = 5 replicate patch reefs for each of the 9 coral diversity treatments at each geographic location (see <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0124054#pone.0124054.g002" target="_blank">Fig 2</a>). The CAP analyses captured a large amount of the variation in community structure in the first two components, with the two primary axes (CAP 1 and CAP 2) accounting for 43% (Moorea), 34% (Lizard Island) and 30% (Kimbe Bay) of the total variance. Dispersion ellipses are based on 0.9 confidence limits of the standard deviation of point scores. CAP groupings were strongly supported, and results of Multivariate Analyses of Variance (MANOVA) (given at the bottom of each panel) constructed on Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrices of log-transformed fish abundance data revealed that fish communities differed significantly among the treatments at Lizard Island and Kimbe Bay but not at Moorea.</p