Reef-Building Corals of Vietnam as a Part of the Indo-Pacific Reef Ecosystem

Latypov, Yu. Ya.

doi:10.1007/s11179-006-0013-5

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“…The abundance of poritids accounted for by their ability to secrete a firm mucous covering and starter production 1 -2 months earlier than other coral species. These peculiarities favor their better adaptation to water overheating, and desalination under other stressful conditions of silted shallow water [36][37][38][39]. Scleractinian and several species of Pocillopora come off outlive remnant animated due to its farness from shorefront to depth 12 -15 meters.…”

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The Composition and Structure of Reef Community at Tho Chu Island (South China Sea) after Ketsana Typhoon

Latypov¹

2013

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Fringing the reefs of the island Tho Chu explored a quarter century later now reexamined in the Gulf of Thailand of the South China Sea. It was found that most of the reefs of the island were lost after the passage of typhoon "Ketsana" accompanied by heavy rains and strong sea waves higher than 2 meters in October 2009. Because of these natural phenomena, physical destruction of many of the coral communities occurred. Removal of terrigenous sediments from the islands in the water has led to increased sedimentation and loss of almost all the scleractinian family Acroporidae, the main building corals on the reefs of the Indo-Pacific, at present, in places where once there was full-reef community succession restoring the reef due to the survivors of the typhoon colonies of coral genera Pocillopora and Acropora.

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The Composition and Structure of Reef Community at Tho Chu Island (South China Sea) after Ketsana Typhoon

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2013

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“…Among 169 scleractinian species found on these reefs, 58-69% were also recorded on the reefs of Nha Trang Bay, the Con Dao Islands, the Gulf of Thailand, and the Gulf of Tonkin [7,22]. Such an index of species diver sity is very high for a very small reef that stretches for 70-100 m perpendicular to the coastline and for little more than 200 m along it.…”

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The composition and structure of a protected coral reef in Cam Ranh Bay in the South China Sea

Latypov

Селин

2012

Russ J Mar Biol

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112The Hon Nai Islands are a group of islands located 11 km to the east of the coastline between the cities of Cam Ranh and Nha Trang. The largest Noi Island is somewhat more than 0.8 km long from north to south (12°03′50′′ N, 109°19′85′′ E and 12°02′75′′ N, 109°19′70′′ E). The island is made of large blocked dacite and is surrounded by a sandy platform with depths of 6-15 m along the eastern side and 9-20 m at the western coast. The bedrocks of the island and their blocky debris stretch from southwest to northeast in 5-20 m wide bands. Coral settlements develop mostly on submarine bedrock exposures and, in smaller amounts, on a corallogenic substrate that is composed of blocks no more than 1 m in size. The island is the property of the Sanest Co., which abso lutely prohibits any access to its submarine resources. The coral ecosystem developed at the southwestern part of the island is characterized by surprisingly clear water and extremely high species diversity of reef building corals and associated organisms, thus differ ing significantly from the ecosystems of the adjacent mainland and insular reefs [8,12].The specificity of geomorphology and climatic conditions allows one to divide the reefs of the World Ocean, in particular, the reefs of Vietnam, into two types. The reefs of the first type, also called "structural reefs" [33], demonstrate pronounced zonation (com prising lagoons, reef flats, etc.) and strong corallogenic carbonate structure; they are common in the tropical zone of the World Ocean. In reefs of the second type, including the reef at Noi Island, the morphological zonation is weakly pronounced and carbonate depos its develop small scale coral populations that make almost no changes to the substrate profile; however, their bionomical zonation is comparable with that of the structural reefs. These are so called non structural or encrusting reefs that often occur among reefs of the monsoon type [21,33]. The species diversity of the reef at Noi Island, which is unusual for the present time, motivates the necessity for investigations of the species composition and distribution peculiarities of scleractinians and associated macrobenthos of this reef. MATERIALS AND METHODSThe composition and distribution of scleractinians and common macrobenthic species and community structure in each reef zone at Noi Island were studied using scuba gear (Fig. 1). The studies were performed following generally accepted hydrobiological tech niques, with transects and standard frames [25]. The density of branched, massive, encrusting, and funnel form scleractinian colonies and the degree of substrate coverage by corals were estimated along a 100 m long transect using a 1 m 2 frame divided into 100 equal parts. At the same time we also determined the density of common species of macrophytes and echinoderms, HYDROBIOLOGY Abstract-A nonstructural reef at Hon Nai Island in Cam Ranh Bay (southern Vietnam) was investigated. In comparison with most of the coastal continental and island coral reefs of this region, it is characte...

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“…Under optimal conditions, the common reefs are characterized by the branching form of colonies [2,8,47]. However, in the vicinity of the Namsu Islands they provided only 5-15% of the substrate coverage; their maximum number was 5-10 colonies/m 2 and 2-4 colonies/m 2 on the average.…”

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“…Along the coast of the islands, the species richness decreased by 10 times as a result of the death of the reefs. Acroporidae species, which are a primary element of all living reefs that usually form the basis of their species richness and provide a high rate of sub strate coverage by live corals [2,8,18,46,48], were almost completely absent in the reefs. The main role in the community formation in the vicinity of Cu Lao Cham Islands belonged to 10-15 ubiquitous alcyonar ian species.…”

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The spatial-temporal variability and stability of Vietnamese reef communities

Latypov

2015

Russ J Mar Biol

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During expeditions in 2010 and 2013 on the R/V Akademik Oparin the individual coral reefs of Vietnam, whose species compositions and structures of benthic communities were first studied and described in the 1980s, were surveyed. The current state of the coral reefs was studied, significant changes in the abun dances of certain hydrobionts were considered, and possible causes of these changes were discussed. It was determined that the general geomorphological zoning of the reefs, species composition, and the structure of the coral communities of the Con Dao, Lý Són (Cú Lao Ré), and Thu islands have not changed significantly. However, negative changes have occurred in reefs of the Namsu (Gulf of Thailand) and Hon Mieu (Nha Trang Bay) islands as a result of increasing anthropogenic impacts. In reefs of the Cu Lao Cham and Tho Chau islands, which were almost completely destroyed or badly damaged by powerful typhoons in 2006 and 2009, signs of gradual recovery of the surviving coral and the formation of new coral populations were recorded.

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Reef-Building Corals of Vietnam as a Part of the Indo-Pacific Reef Ecosystem

Cited by 18 publications

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The Composition and Structure of Reef Community at Tho Chu Island (South China Sea) after Ketsana Typhoon

The Composition and Structure of Reef Community at Tho Chu Island (South China Sea) after Ketsana Typhoon

The composition and structure of a protected coral reef in Cam Ranh Bay in the South China Sea

The spatial-temporal variability and stability of Vietnamese reef communities

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