Figure 2. Effect of sweepstakes reproductive success (SRS) on coral persistence during warming in the Indo-Pacific metapopulation model. (A-D): Violin plots representing the density of decadal mean coral cover across 680 modeled reefs, under increasing SRS severity: from no SRS (A) to SRS=0.001 (D), when only 0.1% of all individuals get to reproduce. E: Effect of SRS on adaptive genetic diversity, measured as standard deviation of the breeding value for heat tolerance, calculated for the fifth decade of warming. F: SRS amplifies within-decade percent coral cover variation (calculated for the last decade before the onset of warming). Dashed line is 1:1 correspondence, colored lines are different SRS settings. G: Increase of decadal coral cover variation under SRS is the most pronounced at smaller reefs (plotted for SRS=0.01).