Table 1. Number of coral colonies (n), colony size (maximum diameter in cm), percent colony mortality and juvenile (colonies <5 cm) contribution to the total number of colonies of each species in the coral-ground assemblage of Xcaret in 2005.
Species | Code | n | Diameter (cm) | Partial mortality (%) | Juvenile |
mean (± SD) | mean (± SD) | contribution (%) | |||
Acropora cervicornis | Acer | 3 | 21.0 (1.7) | 8.9 (15.4) | - |
Agaricia agaricites | Aaga | 255 | 9.2 (5.5) | 10.2 (17.7) | 22.7 |
Agaricia fragilis | Afra | 1 | 11.1 (-) | 0 | - |
Agaricia humilis | Ahum | 3 | 11.2 (5.1) | 0 | - |
Agaricia tenuifolia | Aten | 108 | 13.1 (10.9) | 4.0 (11.3) | 9.3 |
Diploria clivosa | Dcli | 1 | 30.8 (-) | 0 | - |
D. labyrinthiformis | Dlab | 9 | 26.0 (11.4) | 5.6 (8.4) | - |
D. strigosa | Dstr | 104 | 14.7 (9.8) | 11.2 (16.3) | 21.2 |
Dichocoenia stokesii | Dsto | 72 | 8.5 (4.4) | 23.7 (27.6) | 29.2 |
Isophyllastrea rigida | Irig | 3 | 4.9 (3.9) | 6.4 (11.2) | 66.7 |
Leptoseris cucullata | Lcuc | 4 | 10.0 (5.8) | 0 | - |
Madracis decactis | Mdec | 22 | 5.4 (3.6) | 23.7 (27.6) | 50.0 |
Meandrina meandrites | Mmea | 13 | 16.3 (9.5) | 6.6 (10.8) | 15.4 |
Montastraea annularis | Mann | 5 | 14.7 (14.4) | 35.5 (40.0) | 20.0 |
M. faveolata | Mfav | 22 | 13.4 (6.9) | 27.1 (26.5) | 9.1 |
M. cavernosa | Mcav | 64 | 15.6 (10.2) | 23.8 (29.6) | 10.9 |
Porites astreoides | Past | 161 | 5.9 (3.5) | 12.0 (19.3) | 47.8 |
P. divaricata | Pdiv | 41 | 5.1 (4.1) | 9.5 (19.2) | 63.4 |
P. furcata | Pfur | 6 | 8.1 (4.2) | 7.6 (8.4) | 33.3 |
P. porites | Ppor | 94 | 10.5 (9.0) | 8.8 (16.6) | 30.9 |
Siderastrea radians | Srad | 10 | 2.6 (1.1) | 0 | 90.0 |
S. siderea | Ssid | 556 | 7.6 (7.0) | 22.4 (23.7) | 52.0 |
Stephanocoenia intercepta | Sint | 24 | 4.8 (3.5) | 18.6 (26.7) | 66.7 |
Total | 1581 | 9.2 (6.0) | 15.8 (22.2) | 65.6 |