Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia

Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia. Biodiversitas 20: 872-877. Inshore water reef closer to human activities are often neglected since they are not protected by marine park management. Little is known on how this reef responses to challe...

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Main Authors:	Mohd Hanapiah, Muhammad Faiz, Saad, Shahbudin, Ahmad, Zuhairi, Yusof, Muhammad Hamizan, Khodzori, Mohd Fikri Akmal
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Published:	Society for Indonesian Biodiversity 2019
Subjects:	QH301 Biology QH541.13 Ecology
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spelling	iium-709992019-07-12T07:36:12Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/70999/ Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia Mohd Hanapiah, Muhammad Faiz Saad, Shahbudin Ahmad, Zuhairi Yusof, Muhammad Hamizan Khodzori, Mohd Fikri Akmal QH301 Biology QH541.13 Ecology Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia. Biodiversitas 20: 872-877. Inshore water reef closer to human activities are often neglected since they are not protected by marine park management. Little is known on how this reef responses to challenging environment in terms of abundance, diversity and benthic community composition. This study provides a quantitative assessment on the benthic community composition at 5 reef sites in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia and observed the ecological adaptation in the reef community towards turbid water environment. Balok reef has 39% overall coral cover with very low macroalgae abundance (4%). A total of 28 coral genera from 12 families have been recorded with Porites the most dominant genus in the coral assemblages. Most reef sites in Balok are categorized under conservation class 1 (CC1), which indicated that resilient and survival of the reef rely on stress-tolerators taxa. The data presented here showed that Balok reef is highly resilient towards constant exposure to high sedimentation and wave action. Society for Indonesian Biodiversity 2019-03 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/70999/7/70999%20Assessment%20of%20benthic%20and%20coral%20community%20structure%20in%20an%20inshore%20reef%20in%20Balok%2C%20Pahang%2C%20Malaysia.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/70999/13/70999_Assessment%20of%20benthic%20and%20coral_scopus.pdf Mohd Hanapiah, Muhammad Faiz and Saad, Shahbudin and Ahmad, Zuhairi and Yusof, Muhammad Hamizan and Khodzori, Mohd Fikri Akmal (2019) Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia. Journal of Biological Diversity (BIODIVERSITAS), 20 (3). pp. 872-877. ISSN 1412-033X E-ISSN 2085-4722 https://smujo.id/biodiv/article/view/3534/2826 10.13057/biodiv/d200335
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spellingShingle	QH301 Biology QH541.13 Ecology Mohd Hanapiah, Muhammad Faiz Saad, Shahbudin Ahmad, Zuhairi Yusof, Muhammad Hamizan Khodzori, Mohd Fikri Akmal Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia
description	Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia. Biodiversitas 20: 872-877. Inshore water reef closer to human activities are often neglected since they are not protected by marine park management. Little is known on how this reef responses to challenging environment in terms of abundance, diversity and benthic community composition. This study provides a quantitative assessment on the benthic community composition at 5 reef sites in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia and observed the ecological adaptation in the reef community towards turbid water environment. Balok reef has 39% overall coral cover with very low macroalgae abundance (4%). A total of 28 coral genera from 12 families have been recorded with Porites the most dominant genus in the coral assemblages. Most reef sites in Balok are categorized under conservation class 1 (CC1), which indicated that resilient and survival of the reef rely on stress-tolerators taxa. The data presented here showed that Balok reef is highly resilient towards constant exposure to high sedimentation and wave action.
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author	Mohd Hanapiah, Muhammad Faiz Saad, Shahbudin Ahmad, Zuhairi Yusof, Muhammad Hamizan Khodzori, Mohd Fikri Akmal
author_facet	Mohd Hanapiah, Muhammad Faiz Saad, Shahbudin Ahmad, Zuhairi Yusof, Muhammad Hamizan Khodzori, Mohd Fikri Akmal
author_sort	Mohd Hanapiah, Muhammad Faiz
title	Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia
title_short	Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia
title_full	Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia
title_fullStr	Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia
title_sort	assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in balok, pahang, malaysia
publisher	Society for Indonesian Biodiversity
publishDate	2019
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Assessment of benthic and coral community structure in an inshore reef in Balok, Pahang, Malaysia

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