Coral Covers
Coral Covers
Coral Covers
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p-ISSN : 2548-1606
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Nadia Aldyza1, Ternala Alexander Barus* 2, Miswar Budi Mulya3, Muhammad Ali Sarong4,
Afkar5, Fakhrol Andi6, Rahmad7, Gilang Yuarza8
Received : January 19, 2022 Abstract. Pesisir Timur Pulau Weh (PTPW) is a water natural re-
Accepted : March 04, 2022 serve conservation area located in the eastern part of Weh Island. The
DOI: 10.15575/biodjati.v7i1.16634 condition of coral substrates in PTPW has suffered a lot of damage
Department of Biology, Faculty
1,2,3,5 based on bleaching cases that have hit Sabang waters in 2016. Coral
of Mathematics and Natural Science, conditions can be measured by looking at the abundance of fish in-
Universitas Sumatera Utara, Jl. Biote- dicators of the Chaetodontidae group. Therefore, this study aimed to
knologi No. 1, Unit 7. Medan 20155, measure coral conditions and the abundance of Chaetodontidae coral
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Department of Biology Education, fish, as well as analyze the relationship between the percentage of
Faculty of Teacher Training and Ed- coral cover and the abundance of Chaetodontidae coral fish. Data of
ucation, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Jl.
coral were collected using the Point Intercept Transect method with a
Tgk. Hasan Krueng Kalee, Darus-
salam Banda Aceh 23111, 6,7,8 Depart-
length of 50 meters, while the abundance of fish used the Underwater
ment of Marine Science, Faculty of Visual Census technique and the Belt Transect method with a length
Marine and Fisheries, Universitas Sy- of 50 meters and a total belt width of 5 meters. The results showed
iah Kuala, Jl. Meureubo Darussalam that the coral conditions in PTPW were in poor to fair condition with
Banda Aceh 23111. the highest cover at The Sumur Tiga site (36.83%) and the lowest at
The Ujung Kareung site (11.5%). The highest abundance of Chaet-
e-mail: odontidae fish was found at Ujung Seuke site (1253.3 ind/ha) and the
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nadia.aldyza@gmail.com
lowest was found at Anoi Itam site (186.7 ind/ha). The results of the
*2ternala@usu.ac.id
correlation analysis between the percentage of coral cover and the
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miswarbm_bio@usu.ac.id
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alisarong@fkip.unsyiah.ac.id abundance of Chaetodontidae coral fish showed a positive relation-
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afkar.peusangan@gmail.com ship (r = 0.482), but it was not significant (p>0.05), and the regres-
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fakrolhamdan@gmail.com sion equation obtained Y = 17.16x + 166.52 with a determination
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rahmad200398@gmail.com coefficient of 18.3%, which indicated that the correlation between the
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yuarzagilang@gmail.com two variables was very weak.
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Coral Reefs and Coral Fish Data Collection evaluated based on the categories proposed
This is exploratory research. Coral reefs by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment
data collection was carried out by the Point In- (Minister of Environment) No: Kep-04/MEN-
tercept Transect (PIT) method with a transect LH/02/2001 (Prasetia et al., 2017). The cate-
length of 50 meters which was placed parallel gories were: poor (0-24.9%), fair (25-49.9%),
to the coastline (Muttaqin et al., 2014). Each good (50-74.9%), and excellent (75-100%).
site was placed as many as 6 replicas of tran- The results of fish data found at the re-
sects at a depth of 3 to 10 meters. Identifica- search site were elaborated by looking at the
tion of the genus of coral was carried out on composition and abundance of types. Densi-
every 50 cm that touched the substrate. The ty abundance was defined as the number of
collection of coral fish data was carried out vi- individuals of one type per quadrant meter
sually in line with coral data observations, but within each site. The abundance of Chaet-
the method used was the Transect Belt with odontidae coral fish, through census visual
a belt width of 5 meters, so that the area of data collection was calculated by the sigma
coral fish observation was 1500 m2 (6 x 5m x number of individuals of the type of fish di-
50m). The coral genera were identified using vided by area of fish census area (Anshari et
guidebooks by Suharsono (2008) and Kelley al., 2020). The categories for the fish abun-
(2009), while fish species were identified us- dance of Chaetodontidae found in SAP-PT-
ing guidebooks by Allen et al. (2003). PW were determined based on Djamali and
The percentage of coral cover was cal- Darsono (Riskiani et al., 2019) as follows:
culated by the number of points divided by the very rare (200-1000 ind/ha), rare (1000-2000
total point times a hundred percent (Manuput- ind/ha), less abundant (2000-4000 ind/ha),
ty & Djuwariah, 2009). The result of the per- overflow (4000-10000 ind/ha) and very abun-
centage of coral cover was used to determine dant (>10000).
the condition of the coral reef ecosystems.
The condition of coral reef ecosystem was
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100
80
Coral cover (%)
60
40
2021
20 2015
0
Sumur Ujung Reuteuk Benteng Anoi Itam Ujung
Tiga Kareung Seuke
Research sites
Figure 2. Comparison of coral cover in 2015 and 2021 in the SAP-PTPW
area. (Data research in 2015 by Najmi, (2016), and 2021 by re-
search result.
The Abundance of Coral Fish Chaetodon- other 5 sites had very rare criteria (>1000)
tidae (Table 3). This was suspected because the
The results found 10 species of fish Ujung Seuke area is located at the very end
from the family Chaetodontidae in SAP-PT- of the Eastern region and has strong currents/
PW (Table 2). The most abundant species waves so not many community activities are
of coral fish were Hemitaurichthys zoster as carried out in the area, both shipping and
many as 401 individuals, which were found in fishing activities. According to Advani et al.,
all sites, while the least found was Chaetodon (2015), fishing has an impact on marine eco-
falcula as many as 2 individuals which were systems with depletion of fish populations and
only found at Sumur Tiga. changing the structure of communities, so that
Through the calculation of the abun- reduced fishing activity can provide opportu-
dance of Chaetodontidae coral fish, only nities for abundant coral fish conditions.
Ujung Seuke site had rare criteria while the
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The Correlation of Coral Cover with Coral cient of 81.7% indicated that the abundance of
Fish Chaetodontidae coral fish could be influenced by other factors
The analysis results using Minitab 16 beyond the variables tested. Another factor
found that there was a positive relationship could be the availability of food. For obligate
between the percentage of coral cover and the coral predators such as C. collare, C. meyeri
abundance of coral fish Chaetodontidae with and C. trifasciatus fish that are polyp eaters
a correlation coefficient value (r) of 0.428, were found very little, sequentially C. collare
even though it was not significantly (p-value 17 ind, C. trifasciatus 11 ind and C. meyeri 8
= 0.398). This was in line with the coefficient ind. The small number of reef predatory fish
of determination value (R-square) which was caused by the low area of coral cover, then
only 18.3% (Figure 3). It indicated that the C. trifasciatus were only found at stations
abundance of coral fish indicators were not al- that had high covers such as Sumur Tiga and
ways affected by high coral cover conditions. Ujung Seuke.
For instance, The Ujung Seuke site had a Certain coral predators ate corals that
higher fish abundance than other sites, namely are not too wide even though the corals were
1253.3 ind/ha, but the cover percentage was found in small or rare quantities, then there
only 34%. Meanwhile, at Ujung Kareung site, are certain coral fish that are facultative which
the abundance of coral fish indicators was still were found at the research site, i.e. C. citri-
relatively good at 666.7 ind/ha even though nellus, C. falcula, C. vagabundus, F. longiros-
it had the lowest coral cover site (11.5%). tris, F. flavissimus, and H. zoster. Hence, al-
Then, Anoi Itam Site had an indicator coral though the coral cover in SAP-PTPW is low,
fish abundance of 186.7 ind/ha, but the coral chaetodontidae group fish do not decrease
cover was higher than Ujung Kareung which too much because they have other alternative
was 25%. foods such as benthic algae, small crusta-
The coral substrate covered with turf ceans, and polychaeta. According to Pratchett
algae that appeared in almost every site was et al. (2006), Chaetodontidae fish can survive
suspected to be the cause of the weak cor- in the decline conditionof hard coral cover as
relation, so that only a few of Chaetodontidae Chaetodontidae fish are able to eat in addition
family fish were found. The insignificant case to coral polyps (facultative corallivore). In ad-
between the percentage of coral cover and dition, other factors that are assumed to affect
the abundance of Chaetodontidae coral fish fish abundance can be influenced by human
is also similar to the results of Prasetyanda activity (Nugraha et al., 2019), environmental
(2011), and Nurjirana & Burhanuddin (2017) conditions, and aquatic nutrition (Nugraha et
studies. The remaining determination coeffi- al., 2020).
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The abundance of Chaetodontidae (ind/ha)
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Y = 17.16x + 166.52
R-square = 18.3 %
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400
200
10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Coral cover (%)
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