Simulations of Long-Term Community Dynamics in Coral Reefs - How Perturbations Shape Trajectories
Figure 5
Effect of different frequencies of large (x-Axis) and small (y-Axis) disturbance events without the influence of major bleaching events.
The diameter of a pie chart denotes the percentage of the total benthic cover. Standard settings of mechanical disturbances, with smaller intensities occurring every 12 and larger ones every 60 months, are indicated by the gray frame. The colors represent benthic organisms as follows: P. lobata in blue, P. lutea in orange, A. muricata in red, P. damicronis in cyan and macroalgae in green.