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Danika Tager, Jody M. Webster, Donald C. Potts, Willem Renema, Juan C. Braga, and John M. Pandolfi. 2010. Community dynamics of Pleistocene coral reefs during alternative climatic regimes. Ecology 91:191–200.

Appendix F. SIMPER analysis of coral taxa (and growth forms) that contribute most to taxonomic differences between highstand reefs of the Huon Peninsula and lowstand reefs of the Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea.

	Lowstand	Highstand
Taxonomic Grouping	Average abundance	Average abundance	Average dissimilarity	Contribution %
Platygyra (massive)	0.14	0.95	4.18	5.88
Acropora (digitate)	0.14	0.90	4.08	5.74
Montipora (variable)	0.86	0.00	3.99	5.62
Goniastrea (massive)	0.14	0.70	3.10	4.36
Acropora (stout_branching)	0.43	0.85	2.92	4.10
Galaxea (massive/phaceloid)	0.57	0.00	2.83	3.99
Agariciidae	0.71	0.40	2.67	3.76
Acropora (platy)	0.57	0.40	2.56	3.60
Favites (massive)	0.57	0.40	2.54	3.57
Cyphastrea (encrusting/massive)	0.57	0.20	2.53	3.56
Pocillopora	0.57	0.35	2.49	3.51

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