Coral reef has been facing rapid destruction nowadays. Raja Ampat Islands in Papua has one of the highest coral reef diversities and is located within the Coral Triangle area. The coral condition in Raja Ampat is still categorized as healthy. However, it started to show some of the habitat degrading signs. Coral disease is one of the main causes in coral reef ecosystem decline. This study aims to measure the level of coral disease based on coral disease category prevalence observation at Mansuar Island in Raja Ampat, Papua. The method used in data sampling is by using 5 x 50 m Belt Transect. The results show that as many as 28 coral genera were found from all of the observation sites with Fungia being the most abundant. There are 7 coral health categories, dominated by Tissue Discoloration Non-White. There are 5 coral diseases found namely Yellow Band Disease, White Syndrome, Brown Band Disease, Atramentous Necrosis, and Ulcerative White Spots.
Coral disease is one of the causes of the decline in the condition of coral reef ecosystems. This study aims to measure coral health based on the abundance and prevalence of coral health categories. The research was conducted in the Pari Island Cluster, Seribu Islands at four stations. The Belt Transect method with 2 × 100 meters was used to calculate coral health and a 30 m Line Intercept Transect (LIT) with three replications to determine substrate cover. The condition of coral reefs can be categorized as moderate to good based on this percentage value. The study results found five genera from the Fungiidae, namely Fungia, Ctenactis, Herpolitha, Heliofungia, and Sandalolitha. The most commonly found genus is the genus Fungia. The health condition of Fungiidae corals in Pari Island is divided into two categories, namely 35% healthy and 65% unhealthy, consisting of changes in tissue color - white (coral bleaching), changes in tissue color - not white (yellow band disease), and compromised health (damage by sedimentation). Yellow band disease is only found in the genus ˆ and is not found in other genera.
This research is located at Sop Island, Sorong, West Papua. The data was collected using the Belt Transect method, stretching a line for 50 meters with a width of vision for 2.5 meters to the left and 2.5 meters to the right. The depth of the transect is 5 meters, recorded all genera from Family Fungiidae. Five genera were found on The Sop Island, namely Ctenactis, Fungia, Herpolitha, Polyphyllia, and Sandalolitha, but only Ctenactis, Fungia, and Sandalolitha were found on the three sites of observation. Fungia is the most abundant genera found at Sop Island. So, however, the study also found many unhealthy symptoms that infected Fungia. Of the three observation sites, six categories of unhealthy coral are found: Tissue Loss - non-predation - Coloured Band Disease, Tissue Discoloration - White, Tissue Discoloration non-white, Compromised Health Growth Anomalies, and Unknown. The most common categories infected with the Fungiidae at Sop Island are Tissue Loss - non-predation - Coloured Band Disease, Tissue Discoloration - White. Agonizingly, researchers found coral disease at every site.
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