Location of sample sites, Andaman Sea, Thailand.

<p><b>A</b>) Map of the study area in the Andaman Sea off-shore the west coast of Thailand with inset showing the Andaman Sea from the Nicobar Islands Arc to the southeast Asian mainland of Burma and Thailand (Mainland: Wessel and Smith <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0050207#pone.0050207-Wessel1" target="_blank">[79]</a>, Bathymetry: Smith and Sandwell <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0050207#pone.0050207-Smith1" target="_blank">[80]</a>). B–F) Close-up maps of the study islands (Surin, Tachai, Bon, Similan, Miang and Racha) with sampling sites (UNEP Coral Millennium Project). Crosses: core sampling sites with high-resolution temperature monitoring and framework height determination (at Miang W and Surin W additional CTDs were deployed) ; triangles: sites where only framework height was measured (Tachai E and Racha E the present study, Similan E and W framework height derives from <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0050207#pone.0050207-Schmidt1" target="_blank">[16]</a>). Scale bar represents 1 km.