coral communities
Biogeography and change among regional coral communities across the western Indian Ocean
... of coral communities in the western Indian Ocean after a major coral bleaching event in ...291 coral reef sites in 11 countries and over 30 u of latitude between 2004 and 2011 to evaluate ...
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Biogeography and change among regional coral communities across the Western Indian Ocean
... of coral communities in the western Indian Ocean after a major coral bleaching event in ...291 coral reef sites in 11 countries and over 30 u of latitude between 2004 and 2011 to evaluate ...
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The Study of Species Richness in Coral Communities of Vietnam
... Vietnamese coral fauna, its diversity, and high similarity to the fauna of the Southwestern Pacific permit it to be considered as purely tropical fauna belonging to the Indonesian-Philippine center of the origin ...
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Western Indian Ocean coral communities: bleaching responses and susceptibility to extinction
... of coral bleaching and coral com- munities was undertaken spanning 8 countries and ~35° of latitude in ...of coral community structure, bleaching response, susceptibility of the commu- nities to ...
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Reef-building corals and coral communities of the Yemen Red Sea
... islands, coral communities were growing on volcanic base ...high coral species richness (mean: 49 species), highest hard coral cover (mean: 22 %) and some of the largest (and probably oldest) ...
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Effect of Tourism Activities on Coral Communities at the Gulf of Suez, Red Sea
... As coral reefs are main fishing grounds and attractors of large numbers of tourists, they generate important contributions to the national income of many ...countries. Coral reefs are important source of ...
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Recurrent disturbances and the degradation of hard coral communities in Taiwan
... in coral cover due to natural disturbance have occurred in many other reefs ...in coral cover as a result of typhoons, from 80% in 1987 to 10% in 1989, on the southern GBR ...Ocean, coral cover ...
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Local bleaching thresholds established by remote sensing techniques vary among reefs with deviating bleaching patterns during the 2012 event in the Arabian/Persian Gulf
... A severe bleaching event affected coral communities off the coast of Abu Dhabi, UAE in August/September, 2012. In Saadiyat and Ras Ghanada reefs ~40% of the corals showed signs of bleaching. In contrast, ...
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A Review of SCUBA Diving Impacts and Implication for Coral Reefs Conservation and Tourism Management
... and coral reefs is an important component of the global tourism industry and is rapidly growing than any other tourism sector particularly in many tropical countries ...for coral reef use, compare to ...
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The influence of instantaneous variation on estimates of coral reef fish populations and communities
... actual coral communities have considerably lower sim- ilarities, presumably due to non-random processes (Dornelas et ...that coral reef fish are more stable in terms of birth and death ...
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Depth-dependent mortality of reef corals following a severe bleaching event: implications for thermal refuges and population recovery
... of coral reef ...priority. Coral bleaching mortality often diminishes with increasing depth, but clear depth zonation of coral communities and putative limited overlap in species composition ...
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Microbial ecology for four coral atolls in the Northern Line Islands
... drive coral reefs into another stable state and yield observations similar to what was observed on ...low coral cover, or if this is a relatively recent event as suggested by Figure ...its coral ...
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Coral Assemblages in the Southeastern Arabian Gulf (Qatar and Abu Dhabi, UAE): Various Stages of Acropora Recovery a Decade after Recurrent Elevated Temperature Anomalies
... the coral communities near Qatar and Abu Dhabi (UAE) ten years after the recurrent elevated temperature anomalies of 1996, 1998 and 2002 which resulted in the mass mortality of Acropora ...existing ...
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The ecology and dynamics of coral reef communities in an extreme reef environment: the southern Persian Gulf
... occur, coral communities within the Gulf must sustain a large and healthy population into the future to provide enough larvae to nourish the migration (Purkis et ...
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Large fluctuations but constant mean temperatures allow corals to persist in intertidal rock pools on the east coast of South Africa
... in coral communities, from 27°S to ...determined coral diversity in intertidal pools. Six- teen coral species were present in rock pools ...12 coral taxa whereas only six taxa occurred ...
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Microbiome variation in corals with distinct depth distribution ranges across a shallow-mesophotic gradient (15-85 m)
... 51 coral tissue samples was extracted using the FastDNA SPIN Kit for Soil (MP Biomedicals) and a 728-bp fragment of the 16S rRNA gene (amplified by primers U341F and U1053R) sequenced by IMGM using 454 GL FLX ? ...
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Ecosystem-based management of coral reefs under climate change
... to coral reefs have left many degraded. Additionally, coral reefs are faced with the dual emerging threats of ocean warming and acidification due to rising CO 2 emissions, with dire predictions that they ...
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Sponges impacts on coral reef nitrogen cycling, Key Largo, Florida
... in coral reef ecosystems, or to investigate the associated fractionation of N isotopes that is expected to occur (Casciotti et ...the coral reef food ...
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Responses of reef fish communities to coral declines on the Great Barrier Reef
... on coral cover have also been linked to loss of shelter due to eventual collapse of coral skeletons (Garpe et ...of coral mortality on this ...lowing coral declines contributed most to ...
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The influence of coral degradation on tropical fish community structure
... live coral dependence were likely to influence how fish assemblages responded to live coral loss, within Chapter 2 I showed that the abundance of a diverse range of coral-associated fishes were not ...
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