Communities of Coral Reefs of Central Vietnam

Russian Journal of Marine Biology - Tập 27 - Trang 197-200 - 2001
Yu. Ya. Latypov1
1Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

Tóm tắt

Communities of macrobenthos on fringing reefs of central Vietnam were studied by the hydrobiological method using scuba diving. The species composition (more than 600 species), population densities of common species of the macrobenthos, and the degree of coverage of the substrate by corals and macrophytes were examined. Bottom communities classified on the basis of these data are indicative of the similarity of the investigated reefs with those of southern and northern Vietnam.

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