Estado de crestas de arrecifes en el Parque Nacional Jardines de la Reina, Cuba/Status of coral reef crests at the Jardines de la Reina National Park, Cuba
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Four of coral reef crestswere sampledin the Jardines de la Reina National \nPark, Cuba, to know their conditionin February 2016.Ecological indicators on the Scale System for the Classification and Score of Benthos and Fish Fauna Condition of Coral Reefs in Cuba and the \nGreater Caribbean were evaluated. The predominant species of corals were, in descending \norder,Porites astreoides, Millepora complanata and Acropora palmata. Diadema antillarum \nurchins were predominant and Echinometra lucunter lucunter. The macroalgae with the \nmost abundance were Halimeda opuntia and Canistrocarpus cervicornis. The coral covers \nwas similar in most of sampling sites, but in Anclitas (Site 1), lower density of D. antillarum \nand less coverage of the species A. palmata was reported. However, in La Puntica site higher \ndensity D. antillarum and greater coverage A. palmata was found. The latter site was also \nthe highest percentage of crustose macroalgae even when no significant differences with the \nremaining sites were found. The latter was also the highest percentage of crustose macroalgaes \nwas determined, although no significant differences with the remaining sites. Anclitas \nkey crest was classified as “unhealthy”, the Caballones key crest: Bayamesa y Caballones as “less healthy”, whereas that La Puntica as “healthy”. The status of coral reef crest of Jardines de la Reina National Park, as crucial element to be defined, as the nutrient composition and direction of tidal currents as well as the community of herbivorous fish.
Institutions: CIUDAD, Centro de Investigaciones de Ecosistemas Costeros
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life below water
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2620177642