Ecological Archives E090-035-A2

Jason E. Tanner, Terence P. Hughes, and Joseph H. Connell. 2009. Community-level density dependence: an example from a shallow coral assemblage. Ecology 90:506–516.

Appendix B. Sensitivity analysis for the protected crest.

TABLE B1. Sensitivity analysis for the protected crest. Values indicate the percentage change in cover of each taxon resulting from making the density dependent transition density independent. Values greater than 25% are indicated in bold.

 

 

Species Interactions

Persistence

Colonization

Disturbance

Species Group

Equilibrium Cover (%)

CA

DA

GA

AB

AC

DC

FC

GC

AD

CD

CF

GF

CC

II

IA

IB

IC

ID

IE

IG

IH

AI

CI

DI

A

9.6

-4

-1

-4

0

4

-4

-1

1

2

2

-3

-1

0

-90

-76

5

-90

-90

6

1

1

-54

0

-2

B

4.9

0

0

0

0

2

4

1

3

-1

3

0

3

3

-89

-88

-71

-88

-88

4

2

3

9

-1

0

C

16.2

0

0

1

-1

-2

-6

1

-1

-2

1

0

1

-6

-74

-72

7

-59

-71

4

1

1

8

-3

1

D

7.6

-2

-2

-1

-1

0

15

-1

1

-9

-2

-2

0

-1

-68

-65

8

-65

-59

6

1

1

8

0

0

E

13.3

-1

-3

-4

0

-12

-12

-7

-14

3

-14

-2

-13

-5

423

424

-5

418

430

-28

-10

-12

-14

6

-4

F

0.57

1

0

0

-2

1

-5

1

0

3

1

-13

-13

3

-86

-81

-40

-83

-85

3

-1

1

-12

-7

0

G

2.5

4

4

6

4

7

10

4

12

5

10

7

11

23

-40

-36

17

-34

-38

-9

2

7

17

-14

1

H

0.62

-8

-7

-6

1

-2

0

-5

2

-9

1

-7

-1

-1

-88

-89

2

-89

-90

11

2

-50

27

1

-7

I

44.7

1

1

2

0

3

3

2

3

1

3

1

3

2

-53

-58

4

-58

-58

4

2

3

9

0

1


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