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Protection, for the World's Coral Reefs

Data Collection

Artificial Reef Data Collection
Natural Coral Settlement Count (Hermatypic only)
Date Conducted: 18 September 2008
Location: Artificial Reef Blocks, Phi Phi Ley
Note: This is the first full assessment of coral settlement.
The blocks have been down since July 2006 (just over two years.)

    19-17 m 17-15 m 15-13 m 13-11 m 11-9 m Total
Porites
T
 0 1 10 15 5 31
U
 0 0 0 0 0 0
V
 2 0 0 3 0 5
Pocillopora
T
 6 6 22 24 4 62
U
 0 0 0 0 0 0
V
 0 0 8 6 1 15
Acropora
T
 1 2 27 35 13 78
U
 0 0 0 0 0 0
V
 0 1 10 14 6 31
Favidae
T
 8 16 64 36 5 129
U
 0 0 0 0 0 0
V
 1 2 1 0 0 4
Plerogyra
T
 1 1 2 0 0 4
U
 0 0 0 0 0 0
V
 4 6 3 0 0 13
Unknown
T
 24 64 135 115 24 362
U
 0 0 0 0 0 0
V
 20 12 49 28 12 121
              856
Coral NurseryAfter a two-year period we were able to identify 856 corals growing directly on the concrete blocks.

Note: Although we have selected to count corals according to depth this is not really an accurate indicator since the amount of available overall surface area for the corals to settle on is not the same at each depth. Please refer to the depth limits only as indications.