Main physico-chemical predictors for coral health indices for Acropora digitifera.

Typical seasons (autumn and winter 2010) are not affected by La Niña event, during the coral spawning event in autumn 2010 metabolic indices were highest and when all sampled seasons are tested also the La Niña event is included (autumn 2010, winter 2010 and summer 2011). Tests were performed with DISTLM based on BIC (Primer 6). Bold letters indicate significant negative relationships and non bold ones significant positive relationships.* PProchloroccocus, Picoeuk = picoeukaryotes, Temp = temperature, ZP = zooplankton, TN = total nitrogen.