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4.2.1 Site 1 Jean-Michel Cousteau Resort: Big Blue Dive Site: 3m reef slope: Site 1 July 5, 2000
Taxa N
Total Intercept
Mean Std.
Max. Min.
Percent Cover
of coral bleached
Dead Normal
Coral Acropora humilis D
1 60.0
60.0 0.0
60.0 60.0
5.17 9.30
Acropora hyacinthus D 1
20.0 20.0
0.0 20.0
20.0 1.72
3.10 Acropora nasuta
1 20.0
20.0 0.0
20.0 20.0
1.72 3.10
Acropora robust D 1
40.0 40.0
0.0 40.0
40.0 3.45
6.20 Acropora sp. D
4 140.0
35.0 5.0
40.0 30.0
12.07 21.71
Galaxea fasicularis 2
30.0 15.0
5.0 20.0
10.0 2.59
4.65 Goniastrea reniformis BR
1 10.0
10.0 0.0
10.0 10.0
0.86 1.55
Lobophyllia corymbosa 2
40.0 20.0
10.0 30.0
10.0 3.45
6.20 Platygyra sp. R
1 20.0
20.0 0.0
20.0 20.0
1.72 3.10
Pocillopora damicornis D 1
30.0 30.0
0.0 30.0
30.0 2.59
4.65 Pocillopora damicornis
1 25.0
25.0 0.0
25.0 25.0
2.16 3.88
Pocillopora eydouxi D 2
80.0 40.0
0.0 40.0
40.0 6.90
12.40 Pocillopora eydouxi
2 80.0
40.0 20.0
60.0 20.0
6.90 12.40
Pocillopora verrucosa D 1
50.0 50.0
0.0 50.0
50.0 4.31
7.75 645
55.60 4.65
65.12 30.23
Other Soft coral
1 10.0
10.0 0.0
10.0 10.0
0.86 Algae
Coralline algae 2
75.0 37.5
17.5 55.0
20.0 6.47
Substrate Rock 1
30.0 30.0
0.0 30.0
30.0 2.59
Rubble 3
180.0 60.0
37.4 100.0
10.0 15.52
Old dead coral 3
220.0 73.3
33.0 120.0
50.0 18.97
Total 37.07 Total 11m
Total 100
20 Fish
Butterfly Fish
Sweetlip Haeulidae
Snapper Lujanidae
Grouper 30cm
Humphead Wrasse
Cheilinus undulatus
Bumphead parrotfish
Bulbo metopon sp.
Lobster
3 1
4
Invert- ebrates
Banded Coral
shrimp Stenopus
hispidus Diadema
Urchins Pencil
urchins Hetero-
centrotus mammilatus
Sea cucumber
edible only Crown-of –
thorns star Acanth-
aster Giant clam
Tridacna sp.
Triton shell Charonia
tritonis 2
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This area is one of a steep reef front in which the coral cover is high at 56. Of the living cover the newly dead coral as the result of the bleaching was 65 and the unaffected or re-established coral 30. The only remaining bleached coral was 5 of living coverage.
4.2.2 Jean-Michel Cousteau Resort: Big Blue Dive Site: 6m reef slope: Site 3
Taxa N
Total Intercept
Mean Std.
Max. Min.
Percent Cover
of newly
Normal dead
Coral Acropora clathrata D
1 240.0
240.0 0.0
240.0 240.0
10.34 14.63
Acropora hyacinthus D 3
280.0 93.3
57.9 170.0
30.0 12.07
17.07 Acropora intermedia D
2 370.0
185.0 45.0
230.0 140.0
15.95 22.56
Acropora muricata D 3
290.0 96.7
66.5 190.0
40.0 12.50
17.68 Acropora muricata
1 90.0
90.0 0.0
90.0 90.0
3.88 5.49
Acropora nasuta D 1
60.0 60.0
0.0 60.0
60.0 2.59
3.66 Echinopora lamellosa
2 90.0
45.0 35.0
80.0 10.0
3.88 5.49
Galaxea fascicularis 1
10.0 10.0
0.0 10.0
10.0 0.43
0.61 Pocillopora damicornis D
1 110
110 110
110 4.79
6.71 Pocillopora damicornis
1 20.0
20.0 0.0
20.0 20.0
0.86 1.22
Pocillopora eydouxi 3
80.0 26.7
12.5 40.0
10.0 3.45
4.88 Total 1640.0
Total 70.75 82.32
17.68
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Soft coral 1
10.0 10.0
0.0 10.0
10.0 0.43
Algae Halimeda
1 70.0
70.0 0.0
70.0 70.0
3.02
Substrate Old dead coral
1 100.0
100.0 0.0
100.0 100.0
4.31 Rock
1 40.0
40.0 0.0
40.0 40.0
1.72 Rubble
5 460.0
92.0 64.0
210.0 40.0
19.83 Total 23.20m
Total 100
Fish
Butterfly Fish
Sweetlip Haeulidae
Snapper Lujanidae
Grouper 30cm
Humphead Wrasse
Cheilinus undulatus
Bumphead parrotfish
Bulbo metopon
sp. Lobster
4 1
4 1
Invert- ebrates
Banded Coral
shrimp Stenopus
hispidus Diadema
Urchins Pencil
urchins Hetero-
centrotus mammilatus
Sea cucumber
edible only Crown-of
–thorns star
Acanth- aster
Giant clam
Tridacna sp.
Triton shell Charonia tritonis
4.2.3 Jean-Michel Cousteau Resort: Big Blue Dive Site: Deep Site 30m: Transect 1: June 28, 2000