Data

Tedesco, Erik Costa, Calderon, Emiliano Nicolas, Seoane, José Carlos Sícoli, Moraes, Leonardo Evangelista, Lopes, Leones Silva, Da Silva, Nadson Ressyé Simões & Schiavetti, Alexandre, 2018, Coral reef benthic assemblages of a Marine Protected Area in eastern Brazil: effect of reef habitats on the spatial pattern of species, Journal of Natural History 52 (41 - 42), pp. 2723-2743 : 2727

Data analysis

Differences in the composition of the benthic cover between the reef sectors (coastal and oceanic) and between habitats (algal slope, back reef, fore reef, patch reef, reef channel, reef flat, tidal pool and unconsolidated substrate) were accessed by using a similarity analysis (one-way ANOSIM; chord similarity) and non-metric multidimensional scaling (MDS; chord similarity) ( Clarke 1993). The characterisation of the groups formed was tested through a percentage similarity analysis (SIMPER) ( Clarke 1993). All analyses were performed in the program Paleontological Statistics (PAST) ( Hammer et al. 2001).