Abstract
The coral reef ecosystem is known to have high diversity and productivity such as rainforest on land. There is a fringing coral reef located in the Kenting National Park in Taiwan. However, from July 1987, the corals near a nuclear powder plant were frequently bleached in summer. In this research, we had used Acropora grandis as an indicator to study the relationship between the bleaching events of coral with environmental parameters during 1994 to 1998. The results showed that the corals exhibited serious bleaching when the ambient temperature was high. The other environmental parameters were relatively irrelevant. However, during the cool seasons, from January to May, the chl. a of the corals at the right side of warm water effluent, was even than those of the control, showing a better growth result from the warmer temperature. Further analysis showed that bleaching was correlated with water temperature, regional precipitation and sea surface temperature with one and two month before the event, yet not with those of the same month. Human activity in the coastal area was another important factor that caused the deterioration of local coral reef.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0218103-143001 |
| Date | 18 February 2003 |
| Creators | Ho, Chun-Chung |
| Contributors | Lee-Shing Fang, Chi-Hsin Hsu, Keryea Soo, Ching-Lin Tasi |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0218103-143001 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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