Table 29. Percent substrate cover by sessile-benthic categories surveyed by video transects at
a depth of 30 m on the SW Wall Reef, Isla Desecheo during 2004.
Transects
MEAN
Substrate Categories
T1
T2
T3
T4
T5
T6
% Cover
Scleractinian Corals
Montastrea cavernosa
0.21
0.80
0.17
1.09
1.17 11.54
2.50
Montastrea faveolata
0.42
5.76
1.67
0.18
6.46
2.42
Siderastrea siderea
0.21
5.00
2.83
1.34
Agaricia spp.
1.47
0.48
0.50
0.17
0.46
0.51
Meandrina meandrites
0.21
1.60
0.17
0.55
0.50
0.51
Porites astreoides
0.21
1.12
0.83
0.31
0.41
Diploria strigosa
1.82
0.30
Diploria clivosa
0.27
1.64
Montastrea franksi
0.42
0.31
0.12
Madracis decactis
0.32
0.17
0.15
0.11
Eusmilia fastigiata
0.16
0.33
0.08
Colpophyllia natans
0.16
0.03
Total Scleractinian Corals
3.15
10.40
8.01
5.28
5.50 19.23
8.60
Sponges
13.89
8.32
11.83 10.73 14.00 7.23
11.00
Agelas conifera
2.74
5.92
3.33
8.00
2.33
2.92
4.21
Xestospongia muta
0.50
5.82
0.17
1.08
Esponja brown
2.55
0.43
Aplysina spp.
1.28
0.50
0.30
Aplysina cauliformis
0.83
0.14
Cribrochalina vasculum
0.64
0.11
Benthic Algae
Lobophora variegata
30.11
22.56
20.50 21.09 18.83 29.54
23.77
Algal Turf
22.11
21.76
15.33 15.09 17.00 14.46
17.63
Coralline Algae
1.68
8.96
8.00
8.55
2.00
4.15
5.56
Fleshy Algae
0.42
2.40
1.83
3.45
1.50
0.46
1.68
Hydrozoans
0.16
0.03
Abiotic
Sand
25.89
17.60
29.83 19.45 38.17 22.00
25.49
Corals and Hydrocorals Outside Transects: Millepora alcicornis, M. squarrosa,
Stylaster roseus, Stichopathes lutkeni, Antipathes pennacea, Isophyllia sinuosa,
Dichocoenia stokesii, Diploria labyrinthiformis, Mycetophyllia lamarckiana, M. ferox,
Leptoseris cucullata, Madracis sp.
106