The Effects of Increased Sedimentation on the Recruitment and Population Dynamics of Juvenile Corals at Cape Tribulation, North Queensland

David A. Fisk and Vicki J. Harriott
Reef Research and Information Services
PO Box 5348 Townsville MC Qld 4810 Australia
September 1989

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY [Adobe Acrobat Format 136.07KB]

SECTIONS 1-3 [Adobe Acrobat Format 417.46KB]

1. Introduction
2. Study Design
3. Methods
   • Coral spat recruitment
   • Juvenile coral dynamics

RESULTS [Adobe Acrobat Format 673.51KB]

• Environmental conditions over the study period
  • Cyclones and rain depressions
  • Bleaching
  • Sedimentary regime
• Coral spat recruitment
  • Summer 1985/86
  • Summer 1986/87
  • Summer 1987/88
• Juvenile coral dynamics
  • Survival rates
  • Recruitment
  • Mortality rates
  • Size class distributions
• Relationship between spat and juvenile abundances

DISCUSSION [Adobe Acrobat Format 268.77KB]

• Coral spat recruitment
• Juvenile coral dynamics

IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT [Adobe Acrobat Format 71.39KB]

REFERENCES [Adobe Acrobat Format 147.28KB]

APPENDICES

1. Summary of spat data for the 3 summer periods of the study [Adobe Acrobat Format 52.33KB]
2. Generic composition of juvenile coral community [Adobe Acrobat Format 224.58KB]
3. Size frequency distributions
   1. Size frequency distributions of juvenile corals
   2. Size frequency distributions of small corals of genus Acre ora
   3. Size frequency dlstrl utlon of small corals of genus Montipora
   4. Size frequency distribution of small corals of the families Pocilloooridae and Faviidae
   5. Size frequency distribution of small corals of family Poritidae
4. Raw data used for size frequency distribution analysis [Adobe Acrobat Format 34.48KB]
5. Kolmogorov-Smirnoff tests for changes in size frequency distributions [Adobe Acrobat Format 45.11KB]

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