Bar chart illustrating 16S rRNA gene bacterial clone libraries separated into class from replicate samples of Healthy, Apparently Healthy, and Diseased <i>Stephanocoenia intersepta</i> showing signs of Dark Spot Syndrome.

<p>Bar chart illustrating 16S rRNA gene bacterial clone libraries separated into class from replicate samples of Healthy, Apparently Healthy, and Diseased <i>Stephanocoenia intersepta</i> showing signs of Dark Spot Syndrome.</p

<i>Stephanocoenia intersepta</i> showing Dark Spots Syndrome.

<p>(a) shows a heavily infested colony with variable sizes of dark spots, (S) is classed as a small spot and (M) classed as a medium spot, (b) shows the characteristic dead tissue which follows this syndrome usually associated with larger spots (L), (AH)  =  Apparently Healthy tissues sampled for direct comparisons to the diseased lesions, and (c) is a reference shot of the terrestrial plant disease known as Tar Spot caused by the fungal pathogen <i>Rhytisma acernium</i>, the same pathogen of which was isolated from DSS lesions and absent in healthy tissues.</p

Non Metric Multidimensional scaling (MDS) plots.

<p>(a) shows changes in 16S rRNA gene bacterial communities between healthy (H), apparently healthy (AH) and three different sized disease lesions; Small Disease Lesion (S-DL), Medium Disease Lesion (M-DL) and Large Disease lesions (L-DL) from corals showing signs of Dark Spot Syndrome. (b-f) MDS bubble plots of a subset of bacterial ribotypes derived from SIMPER analysis which gives the ribotypes offering the greatest differences or similarities between sample types.</p

Heatmap showing replicate 16S rRNA gene clone libraries of Healthy (H), Apparently Healthy (AH), Small Disease Lesion (S-DL), Medium Disease Lesion (M-DL) and Large Disease lesions (L-DL) from corals showing signs of Dark Spot Syndrome.

<p>Heatmap showing replicate 16S rRNA gene clone libraries of Healthy (H), Apparently Healthy (AH), Small Disease Lesion (S-DL), Medium Disease Lesion (M-DL) and Large Disease lesions (L-DL) from corals showing signs of Dark Spot Syndrome.</p

Relationship between coral cover and territory size.

<p>Effect of living coral coverage on the territory size of <i>Chaetodon triangulum</i>. The fitted line is described by the equation y = 369.76x^-0.713; R² = 0.690 (P<0.05). </p

Dietary selectivity and prey preferences of <i>Chaetodon triangulum</i> presented as chi-square log likelihood analysis (<i>χ</i>_<i>L2</i>²) and resource selection functions for seven coral categories [26].

<p>‘Low’ indicates pooled data for sites with <25% living coral coverage and ‘High’ indicates pooled data for sites with >40% living coral coverage.</p

Influence of Resource Availability on the Foraging Strategies of the Triangle Butterflyfish <i>Chaetodon triangulum</i> in the Maldives - Fig 1

<p><b>Coral cover and proportional consumption, compared at sites of different coral coverage</b> Mean ± S.E. proportional cover of scleractinian corals and mean ± S.E. proportion of bites taken on respective corals during feeding observations of <i>Chaetodon triangulum</i> at sites of (<b>a)</b> low coral coverage (<25%) (n = 8 territories) and (<b>b)</b> high coral coverage (>40%) (n = 9 territories) in the Maldives, June-October 2013.</p