Resistance of rocky intertidal communities to oceanic climate fluctuations

Fig 5. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (nMDS) plots depicting Bray-Curtis dissimilarity among intertidal communities in a) high, b) mid, and c) low intertidal community structure in Oregon and northern California from 2006–2021. Colors depict Cape Foulweather sites in blues, Cape Perpetua sites in reds, Cape Blanco sites in greens, and Cape Mendocino sites in purples. Each data point represents a community at either the quadrat level (a & b, 0.5 x 0.5m) or transect level (c, the average of ~10 0.5 x 0.5m quadrats). Vector overlays (in black) depict species contributing most strongly to within-cape similarity in SIMPER analyses (S4d-S4f Table in S1 Appendix). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297697.g005 PLOS ONE Resistance of rocky intertidal communities PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297697 May 29, 2024 13 / 34