Supporting Data files for Prehistoric archives reveal evidence of predator loss and prey release in Caribbean reef fish communities

Legends for Supporting Data files S1 to S13 Data file S1. Dermal denticle abundances in mid-Holocene and modern reef sediments in Bocas del Toro and Dominican Republic Data file S2. Otolith abundances in mid-Holocene and modern reef sediments in Bocas del Toro and Dominican Republic. “Sin_identificar” were otoliths that were too eroded or fragmented to be able to identify to family. Data is published in (4). Data file S3. Estimated accretion rates of modern and mid-Holocene reefs in Bocas del Toro and Dominican Republic. Data file S4. Zooarcheological remains recovered from unit excavations at Sitio Drago, late Holocene archeological site, Bocas del Toro, Panama (Fig. S1B). NISP = number of identified specimens. Data from (20). Data file S5. Classification of fish families into feeding, life mode and resource use guilds. Expanded information from Table S1. Data file S6. Frequency of algal-gardening damselfish chimneys (Figs. S4 & S5) on branches of Acropora cervicornis from the mid-Holocene and modern reefs in Bocas del Toro. Tip_Stalk; If the branch included a growing tip or not. Total_Branches; number of branches in the coral sample (see Fig. S7). Chimneys; number of chimneys on the sample. Total_BL; the cumulative length of branches (see Fig. S7). Chim_per_BL; Number of chimneys pero total branch length. Data file S7. The diameters and heights of algal-gardening damselfish chimneys (Figs. S4 & S5) from branches of Acropora cervicornis from the mid-Holocene and modern reefs in Bocas del Toro. Data file S8. Our in-house otolith reference collection at date of publication, with otolith size and fish length data used to reconstruct models of otolith size to fish size for Caribbean bony reef fish families. Data file S9. Supporting data on otolith and body sizes of Atlantic species of snapper (Lutjanidae). Data from (21). Data file S10. Sizes of otoliths obtained using the 2D option of Automorph (15) from mid-Holocene and modern coral reefs in Bocas del Toro, Panama and the Dominican Republic. Data file S11. The size of snapper (Lutjanidae) and grunt (Haemulidae) otoliths recovered from excavated horizons at the late Holocene archeological site Sitio Drago, Bocas del Toro, Caribbean Panama. Otoliths were measured using ImageJ through a stereo microscope. Data file S12. Body sizes of snapper (Lutjanidae) and grunt (Haemulidae) species captured by net in Bocas del Toro. Data subsetted from (22). Data file S13. Sample metadata (locality, age, type of sample, etc.) of the bulk samples of reef matrix extracted from mid-Holocene and modern reefs in Bocas del Toro and Dominican Republic, and from which denticles and otoliths were recovered. For more information on sites and sampling, see Methodology, Figs S1, S2, S3 and (4, 6, 7, 23). Data file S14. Radiometric (Uranium-Thorium and radiocarbon) dates from the reefs studied. Data file S15. Citations for R packages used in this study.