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Coral mortality in reefs: The cause and effect; A central concern for reef monitoring

DRS at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography

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Title Coral mortality in reefs: The cause and effect; A central concern for reef monitoring
 
Creator Raghukumar, C.
 
Subject coral
coral reefs
mortality
diseases
biotic factors
abiotic factors
monitoring
 
Description The primary causal agents for the destruction of corals are the abiotic and/or biotic agents or a combination of both. The abiotic factors that are responsible are bioerosion, sedimentation, eutrophication and pollution, whereas the biotic causes are unbalanced predation, competitors for substratum and diseases. As a result, the effects of these causative agents are partial mortality in massive corals, bleaching, block-band and white-band disease. All these effects of various causal organisms or events are destructive and long-lasting. The coral reef monitoring programme therefore aims at identifying reefs in various localities inorder to monitor them for various diseases and hence evolve strategies to eliminate the causes of diseases
 
Date 2009-01-12T08:40:14Z
2009-01-12T08:40:14Z
1997
 
Type Conference Article
 
Identifier Regional Workshop on the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Coral Reefs, C83-C86p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/1983
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [1997]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher M.S. Swaminathan Res. Found., Chennai (India)