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Obura, D.,
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Status of Coral Reefs in East Africa.
in Linden, O., D. Souter, D. Wilhelmsson, and D. Obura (eds.). Coral degradation in the Indian Ocean: Status Report 2002. CORDIO, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden.pp 15-20
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19675
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Obura, D.
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2002
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Status of Coral Reefs in East Africa.
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in Linden, O., D. Souter, D. Wilhelmsson, and D. Obura (eds.). Coral degradation in the Indian Ocean: Status Report 2002. CORDIO, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden.pp 15-20
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status report, monitoring, recovery, bleaching, management
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Abstract
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East African coral reefs were severely impacted by the El Niño Southern Oscillation of 1997–98, with bleaching and mortality levels varying from <1% in South Africa to 80% and greater on reefs in northern Tanzania and Kenya. Recovery of affected
reefs to 2002 has ben moderate and patchy. Reefs with high coral diversity and cover that were strongly impacted by the El Niño have recovered to less than 50% of pre-bleaching coral cover. Some high diversity reefs that were protected from
bleaching impacts have remained healthy, with high coral cover and diversity. Degraded reefs outside of MPAs that were strongly impacted by the El Niño have by and large recovered to 50–100% of pre-bleaching coral cover. Recruitment of corals to reefs has also been moderate, with highest levels recorded in protected reefs with high coral cover and diversity. In 2001–02, multiple threats have impacted East African reefs that may be climate-change related, including floods in Mozambique, Harmful Algal Blooms in Tanzania and Kenya, and an unknown
fungal coral disease in Kenya and northern Tanzania. Anthropogenic threats to East African reefs continue since the global reports of 1998 and 2002, including over-fishing, destructive fishing, pollution, human settlement and development,
mining and shipping industry activities. Socio-economic studies of coral reefs are becoming increasingly common in East Africa, including the development of socioeconomic monitoring under GCRMN. Importantly, while socioeconomic losses
from coral mortality from the 1998 bleaching event have been predicted, particularly in fisheries and tourism, these have not yet been realized.
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