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New recruitment of diverse scleractinian corals in little Andaman Island after tsunami

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Title New recruitment of diverse scleractinian corals in little Andaman Island after tsunami
 
Creator Mondal, Tamal
Raghunathan, C.
Ramakrishna
 
Subject Indian Ocean tsunami
Damage
Little Andaman
Coral Reef
 
Description 653-656
Coral reefs of the east coast of Andaman & Nicobar Islands were
affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami of
December 26, 2004. Eight sites in Little Andaman Island were studied to observe
the present status of coral reefs around the eastern and southern regions of
Little Andaman. Damages caused by the tsunami are overturned massive corals,
broken branching corals and smothering of corals by sediments and coral rubble
with these effects being greatest in shallow waters. Overall damage was
extremely localized affecting only large sectors of reef which were exposed to
the full force of the tsunami waves.
It is estimated that damaged sites have been recovering naturally in a time
span since 2005 to till date.
 
Date 2011-11-18T04:23:47Z
2011-11-18T04:23:47Z
2011-10
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/13076
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.40(5) [October 2011]