Table 2. Cont.
Station number | Roving & Rotenone | Coordinates | Date | Depth (m) | Local name | Description of habitat |
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Saba-06-23 | 17o30.580N; 63o27.595W | 13 Jan 2006 | 28 | Rotenone-flat bottom in central area of bank | ||
Saba-06-24 | 17o20.766N; 63o15.008W | 14 Jan 2006 | 31 | Coral Garden | Rotenone-coral groove at top of steep outer dropoff on SE side of Saba Bank, rock, coral, and sponges, sand at bottom of groove. | |
Saba-06-25 | 17o21.162N; 63o15.138W | 14 Jan 2006 | 18 | Rotenone-near Coral Garden at SE edge of Saba Bank, small ledge on edge of sand and rubble flat, gorgonians, coral and rock | ||
Saba-06-26 | No label with these-specimens taken at one or more of the other stations, but their locality labels were lost | |||||
Saba 2007-01 | 17.51206 N; 63.2332 W | 20 Jun 2007 | 29-38 | Poison Bank- rotenone-dead and live coral channel with rubble on deep reef. | ||
Saba 2007-02 | 17.46028 N; 63.2517 W | 20 Jun 2007 | 15-19 | Twin Peaks- rotenone-algae covering rock and some sand on a low ridge |
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(Mao Tau) in EstimateS v.8.0 software 10. Total expected richness was estimated using Chao2 and Jack1 estimators.
A Bray-Curtis resemblance matrix was generated from a matrix of presence/absence data from 12 combined roving surveys and rotenone collections in order to produce a non-metric multidimensional scaling (MDS) ordination and group averaged hierarchical clustering dendrogram in PRIMER v. 6.1 software 11. The ANOSIM statistic was employed to test for a priori differences between habitat types and depth classes. A dendrogram based on group averaged hierarchical cluster techniques was used to illustrate the differences among depth classes (Figure 202). Color codes are derived from the similarity profile (SIMPROF) statistic in Primer 6.1. SIMPROF is less powerful than ANOSIM, intended for a posteriori tests of structure in the data. The test was employed here for representational purposes. A second data matrix of species presence and absence was introduced for an a posteriori test of genuine data structure among Caribbean localities, using the Bray-Curtis resemblance measure to determine the level