TAILIEUCHUNG - The effect of environmental conditions on coral reef habitat in Balhaf Bay, Gulf of Aden, Yemen

This paper represents the beginning of a reference data base for the long term assessment and control of environmental impacts on the coral reef habitat of the Balhaf Bay, Gulf of Aden, following the development of an industrial complex on the bay. Present results reveal a high surface water temperature in summer with the tendency for relatively low temperature in the winter months. Bottom water temperature undergoes significant seasonal variation, with the annual difference at the two studied stations found to be up to ◦C in the deep station (D), and 11 ◦C between August and September in the shallow station (F). Winter salinity variation was found not to exceed g/l (measurements between and g/l), though salinity did vary seasonally: increasing at the beginning of the summer monsoon from g/l to reach an annual maximum in this region ( g/l) in the first days of July. The general lack of difference in the index of salinity for the studied depths is worth noting. Whatever the reason, such results call for more detailed studies of the habitats under reference. | The effect of environmental conditions on coral reef habitat in Balhaf Bay, Gulf of Aden, Yemen

• Sinh học
• Coral reefs
• Thermal dynamics
• Gulf of Aden
• Environmental conditions
• Coral reef habitat
• importance of coral
• reefs and marine environment
• materials on coral
• reefs function
• absorb energy of ocean
• Coral bleaching
• Sea surface temperature
• Coral reef ecosystem
• Protection solutions
• Photographic method
• Carbon dioxide
• Global environmental properties
• Regression analysis
• Bleaching occurrences
• Materials
• methods
• portable GPS unit
• Acropora fastigata
• Stylophora subseriata
• coral species
• Tropical Forests Forests
• Sustainable resource management
• Hon La island
• Coastal communities
• Local stressors
• BMC Genomics
• Territorial aggression
• Densely populated marine ecosystems
• Morphologically simple
• Salinity stress
• Endoplasmic reticulum
• Amino acid metabolism
• Great Barrier Reef
• Journal of Earth Sciences
• Bioerosional structures
• Red Sea coast
• Saudi Arabia
• Oichnus paraboloides
• Caulostrepsis taeniola
• Oceans Map
• The Ocean
• Water Planet
• One Stroke
• Coral Reefs in Crisis
• Climate Change
• độc học môi trường
• chất gây ô nhiễm
• quản lý tài nguyên
• xử lý chất thải
• sinh thái học
• viễn thám
• Physics–Biology
• Water Circulation
• Mangroves
• Implications
• Biodiversity
• ocean life
• keeping safe
• icy oceans
• catching prey