# readme


# This repository belongs to the paper 'Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity' by Engelhardt et al. 2023 
# published in Communications Earth & Environment and contains all raw data generated in the experiments, 
# as well as the scripts to perform the statistical analyses and generate the graphs. The work was done in R statistical environment (v.4.0.2, R Core Team 2020).

# order of scripts for experiment 1&2

#Experiment 1
#1) Exp1_data_preparation
#2) Exp1_statistical_analysis
#3) Exp1_plots

#Experiment 2
#1) Exp2_data_preparation
#2) Exp2_statistical_analysis
#3) Exp2_plots

# create a folder called "Figures" on your device, if you want to safe the graphics
# with the code provided