Discussion
Our findings show a clear disparity in the response of benthic configurations under global warming between the Honduras and Indonesia coral reef sites. The drastic responses at the Honduras sites of individual taxa suggests more disturbance was perpetuated through the extremely high thermal anomaly years of 2016-2017 (Fig 2), whereas the Indonesia sites were relatively sheltered from ocean warming with evidence of lower SSTAs clear for every survey year, and less drastic changes in composition. Furthermore, the clear response of compositional shifts of coral reefs in Honduras under elevated ocean temperatures highlights the disparate effect of global warming for driving the shifts of coral reef benthic configuration at the Honduras site compared to the Indonesia site (Fig 5).