Small-Scale Spatial Analysis of In Situ Sea Temperature throughout a Single Coral Patch Reef
Figure 6
Tukey boxplots of the seasonal and annual variation in the proportion of time spent as a relative Hotspot (a) and total Degree Heating Hours for Summer 2008 and 2009 (b). The rectangle represents the interquartile range (i.e., the 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile), the “whiskers” represent all values that are within 1.5 times the interquartile range, and the open circles represent outliers, defined as data points that lie outside the whiskers. Paired Welch’s -tests were used to test for statistically significant temperature differences between seasonal subdatasets. One-tailed tests were used for comparing winter versus summer or two-year versus summer or winter datasets. Two-tailed tests were used for comparing winter versus winter or summer versus summer datasets.
