Ordination plot of Saba Bank transects.

<p>A non-metric multidimensional scaling (MDS) plot based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarity measures derived from species abundance values in 8 quantitative transects. Fore-reef sites (A, CV) are significantly different (ANOSIM, <i>P</i><0.05) from plateau sites (D, E, and Void), but not significantly different from each other. There is good separation between fore-reef and plateau sites, with slight prospect of a misleading representation (2D stress <0.10).