Five scleractinian species at Wake are on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Provide a list of 101 anthozoan and hydrozoan corals observed at Wake Atoll during survey activities Growth forms as well as the highest total coral cover, octocoral cover, and coralline algal cover. The deep northeast stratum showed among the highest diversity of OctocoralsĪccount for more than 25% of the total coral cover in the northeast sector but less than 5% of the totalĬoral cover in the southwest sector. Montipora, Pocillopora, and Favia are the most numerically abundant taxa in both sectors. Coral cover and colony abundances are lessĭominated by a few key genera in the northeast than in the southwest sector, though the genera Southwest sector encrusting and massive growth forms dominate in the northeast sector while encrustingĪnd digitate growth forms dominate in the southwest sector. Coral cover in the northeast sector is more than 2.5 times greater than in the Photoquadrat surveys revealed high dissimilarity in overall benthic composition between the northeastĪnd southwest sectors. Both broad-scale towed-diver surveys and site-specific Stratified by geographic sector and depth zone. Here, we apply multivariate statistical analyses to dataĪcquired in 2005 from several complementary survey methods that operate at different scales of spatialĪnd taxonomic resolution to characterize the coral communities in the fore-reef habitat, which is further Little published or unpublished information exists concerning the benthic community structure or coralįauna at Wake Atoll in the Central Pacific.
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