. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 13 PUNTA BEJUCO: The Punta Bejuco reef complex (Fig. 1) includes several reefs separated by sand channels (Fig. 9). The reef fronts and flanks are steep and made up of live and/or dead colonies of Pontes lobata (Fig. 8b). The central area of the reef consists of dead Pocillopora and Psammocora rubble. The predominant species in this reef complex is again Porites lobata with very low abundances of Psammocora stellata and Pavona varians (Tables 1 and 2). Live coral cover is low but not significantly different be
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 13 PUNTA BEJUCO: The Punta Bejuco reef complex (Fig. 1) includes several reefs separated by sand channels (Fig. 9). The reef fronts and flanks are steep and made up of live and/or dead colonies of Pontes lobata (Fig. 8b). The central area of the reef consists of dead Pocillopora and Psammocora rubble. The predominant species in this reef complex is again Porites lobata with very low abundances of Psammocora stellata and Pavona varians (Tables 1 and 2). Live coral cover is low but not significantly different between reef zones. Dead coral cover and sand/rubble cover are high in the three reef zones (Table 2). PUNTA EL BAJO: The reef at Punta El Bajo is a small patch reef (Fig. 10) made up of only two species, Psammocora stellata and Porites lobata (Table 1). The central core of the patch consists of almost 1009c live Psammocora stellata coverage of the bottom (Table 3). These colonies are tightly interlocked (Fig. 11). A rod was pushed into the Psammocora framework at several points, indicating a thickness of at least one meter. Toward the periphery, live Porites lobata is present, together with isolated unattached colonies of live Psammocora stellata. Live coral cover on the central Psammocora core is significantly higher than the shallow and deep periphery (1-way ANOVA, F = , p<). Differences between the two zones in terms of dead coral cover and sand/rubble cover are not significant (Table 2-3). Many fragments of dead Pocillopora damicornis were Figure 9: Oblique aerial photograph of the Punta Bejuco reef complex. Note the sediments moving onto the reef from the deforested shore. Tidal Elevation, approximately Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original
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