Change in the benthic community composition from 2012-2019
The relative contribution of individual benthic components to the reef benthic composition are shown from 2012-2015 (Fig 4a) and 2016-2019 (Fig 4b), with only slight changes to the benthic components at the Indonesia sites between these time groups. Furthermore, potential simplification/stabilisation of the benthic composition at the Indonesia sites can be observed based on the entirety of the ordination space occupied pre-2016 compared to 2016-2019 (Fig 4c). However, at the Honduras sites, a drastic change in the benthic components which drives the community composition was observed from 2012-2015 compared to 2016-2019 (Fig 4d,e). This coincided with a shift in the ordination space occupied by each site. (Fig 4f).
No significant shift in the benthic composition under global warming, quantified as SSTA, at the Indonesia site was identified (Fig 5). However, the shift in the benthic composition at the Honduras site was significantly driven by global warming (F = 6.195, df = 31, p = 0.0184, Fig 4f, Fig 5).