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- Title
Community structures of coral reefs around Peninsular Malaysia.
- Authors
Tatsuki Toda; Tomoko Okashita; Takeshi Maekawa; Bin Alfian; Mohd Rajuddin; Ryota Nakajima; Wenxi Chen; Kunio Takahashi; Bin Othman; Makoto Terazaki
- Abstract
Abstract??Coral community structures at eleven fringing reef sites were investigated along the coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Estimated coverage of coral communities is examined by applying quantitative digital image analysis to the line transect method. Four coral community types were characterized by dominant genera and lifeforms:Acroporabranching community,Montipora-Acroporacommunity,Poritesmassive community, andHelioporacommunity. Live coral coverage in all study sites ranged from 17.9% to 68.6%. Most reefs were in ?fair? condition while some reefs were shown to be in ?poor? condition. Coral community structures among the study sites were divided into the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia with a dominantPoritesmassive lifeform, and the east coast with a variety of lifeform categories ofMontiporaandAcropora. Physical effects such as the monsoon wind regime and sedimentation are likely to influence the formation of dominant coral communities around Peninsular Malaysia.
- Subjects
MALAYA; CORAL reefs &; islands; ISLANDS; CORALS
- Publication
Journal of Oceanography, 2007, Vol 63, Issue 1, p113
- ISSN
0916-8370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10872-007-0009-6