Figure 1.
Map of southeastern Arabian Gulf and northwestern Gulf of Oman study areas.
Monitoring station locations at Al Hiel (AHL), Bu Tinah (BTN1&2), Yasat (YST), Saadiyat (SDY), Ras Ghanada (GHN), Dibba South (DS), and Mirbah North (MN).
Table 1.
Descriptions of repetitive monitoring sites in the southeastern Arabian Gulf and northwestern Gulf of Oman.
Table 2.
Size-dependent classifications for massive coral colonies.
Figure 2.
Coral assemblages by cluster analysis and multi-dimensional scaling.
(upper) Bray-Curtis similarity cluster analysis depicting three assemblages; AG1, AG2 and GO1. (lower) MDS graphic representation with ovals around assemblages indentified by dendrogram. AG1 is comprised of Al Hiel (AHL), Bu Tinah (BTN1&2) and Yasat (YST). AG2 is comprised of Saadiyat (SDY) and Ras Ghanada (GHN). GO1 is comprised of Dibba South (DS) and Mirbah North (MN).
Figure 3.
Size frequency distributions for massive corals by region.
POR = poritids, FAV = faviids; ALL = all massive coral taxa Size Class color coding: SC1 = red, SC2 = orange, SC3 = yellow, SC4 = green, SC5 = blue.
Table 3.
Taxa groups responsible for >90% within-group similarities and among-group dissimilarities based on SIMPER analysis.
Table 4.
Populations and sexual recruitment of faviids, poritids, and all massive corals.
Table 5.
Whole colony mortalities.
Table 6.
Size class stabilities (no size class transitiona).
Table 7.
Growth profiles (postive size class transitions).
Table 8.
Partial mortalities (negative size class transitions).
Table 9.
Fission – Parent colonies that underwent fission and mean number of ramets generated.
Table 10.
Fusion –Fused colonies and mean number of ramets that fuse together.
Table 11.
Transition probability matrices.
Table 12.
Stable size class distributions, dominant eigenvalues and damping ratios.
Figure 4.
Sensitivity and elasticity surface plots for all massive corals by region.
Fate and state axes represent transitions between size classes 1–5. Vertical axes represent the sensitivity and elasticity of the respective population growth rates, λ, to perturbation analyses. Sensitivity/Elasticity color coding: 0.0–0.2 = green, 0.2–0.4 = yellow, 0.4–0.6 = red, 0.6–0.8 = blue.
Figure 5.
Population and area cover projections through 2050 for all massive corals.
Red MM(0) lines represesent optimal, disturbance-free projections (zero mass mortality events). Black MM(16) and blue MM(10) lines represent mass mortality every 16 years and 10 years, respectively, with 25% loss of massive corals during each disturbance.