Empirical Models of Transitions between Coral Reef States: Effects of Region, Protection, and Environmental Change
Figure 2
State dynamics in the Caribbean.
Blue circles (year t)and red dots (year t+1), connected by grey lines, are percentage cover of coral and macroalgal cover on the same reef in two consecutive years. Black lines delimit states, as defined in Table 1. There are 100 pairs of observations in consecutive years between 1997 and 2006, from 69 reefs.