Table 2. Regional comparisons of temperature, coral community, and dominant taxa. Long-term temperature metrics (mean, kurtosis and skewness) for sites within the coral triangle (n = 27) and sites outside the coral triangle (n= 199) compared by the Wilcoxon tests of significance. Metrics of the coral communities and two measures of their bleaching responses. Community axis 1 and 2 are the first and second Community Correspondence Axes of a multivariate evaluation of coral taxa. Susceptibility weights taxa abundance by a mean bleaching response during the 2016 period. Bleaching intensity weights bleaching by 7 categories of bleaching intensity. DHM = degree heating months from 1985 to 2015. CTA = cumulative thermal anomaly model based on sum of DHM. CE = climate exposure model based on multiple environmental variables.