Partial dependence plots for Boosted Regression Tree (BRT) analyses relating species occurrence to the top 4 most influential geographical and morphological predictors.

<p>(A) <i>Balistes vetula</i> (Queen triggerfish); (B) <i>Cephalopholis fulva</i> (coney), (C) <i>Epinephelus guttatus</i> (red hind); (D) <i>Scarus taeniopterus</i> (Princess parrotfish); and (E) <i>Stegastes planifrons</i> (threespot damselfish). The graphs show the effect of a particular variable on the response: positive fitted function values suggest that species respond favorably and low values suggest the opposite. The relative importance of each variable is shown in parentheses on the <i>x</i>-axis. Increasing negative values for planar curvature represent increasing amount of convexity in the surface; positive values are concavity.