File:Coral decline data.webp

English: The figure indicates the disturbances events and their impact on coral reefs at Tiahura reef, Moorea Island, French Polynesia, surveyed by Adjeroud et al. (2018). Figure description from publication: "Impact of eight large-scale disturbances between 1991 and 2014 on (a) cover of corals (all 18 genera), macroalgae and turf algae, and (b) cover of the four dominant coral genera at 12 m depth at Tiahura reef, Moorea island. Dotted lines represent standard deviation. A portion of the reef is shown through time (photos A–D). (A) Coral dominate the healthy reef (coral cover >45%). (B) Turf algae have colonized dead coral colonies following outbreaks of the coral-killing crown-of-thorns seastar Acanthaster spp. (COTS) (<5% coral cover). (C) Mostly dead and weakened coral colonies were swept away by the cyclone Oli in February 2010 (<1% coral cover). (D) Juvenile colonies of Pocillopora spp. have recolonized the substrate (∼17% coral cover)."