Table 2.
Percentage of different corals/substrate types per plot (I to X) at the Napoleon Reef, Dahab, Egypt (Gulf of Aqaba).
| Substrate |
Plots |
|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I |
II |
III |
IV |
V |
VI |
VII |
VIII |
IX |
X |
|
| Hard coral | 19.3 | 32.0 | 32.4 | 34.0 | 26.4 | 26.3 | 32.0 | 40.0 | 37.6 | 35.6 |
| Broken coral | 0.7 | 1.3 | 3.2 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 4.0 | 1.6 |
| Broken coral fragment | – | 0.3 | 1.6 | 4.5 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 1.6 | 3.5 | 1.6 | 0.4 |
| Dead coral with algae | 3.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 12.3 | 10.4 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 15.2 |
| Dead coral | 6.3 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 4.0 | 10.8 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 9.0 | 10.0 | 4.8 |
| Soft coral | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 3.7 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 4.4 |
| Rubble | 5.7 | 5.0 | 4.4 | 6.0 | 8.4 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 3.5 | 5.2 | 6.0 |
| Sand | 58.7 | 37.0 | 27.6 | 38.0 | 41.6 | 20.3 | 19.6 | 19.5 | 28.4 | 12.8 |
| Coral rock | 2.7 | 10.0 | 9.6 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 20.0 | 14.4 | 7.5 | 1.2 | 16.0 |
| Algae | 0.7 | 1.3 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 2.4 | 3.2 |
| Rubbish | – | – | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | – | – | – | – | – |