Fig. 3From: Viral predation pressure on coral reefsRelationship between microbial and fish predators across the coral cover gradient. A Thin plate spline surface prediction with robust smoothing of the relationship between microbial cell abundance, viral abundance, and coral cover. B Surface prediction of the relationship between the virus-to-bacteria ratio (VBR), the biomass of predator fish, and coral cover by robust smoothing using a thin plate spline. C Effective degrees of freedom across quantiles of coral cover obtained from the cubic smoothing splinesBack to article page