Corals and Fishes on Reefs:
How do we collect biodiversity data for Indonesian coral reef ecosystems?
Coral reefs can have the largest number of species of any marine ecosystem, with more than 50 families and more than 100 genera of corals and fishes.
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Indonesia is an archipelago country renowned as the centre of the Coral Triangle. With over than 700 coral reef species, Indonesia has the highest richness of marine species in the world. Nonetheless, people tend to be more interested in terrestrial rather than marine biodiversity. Thus, although human activity disrupts Indonesian coral reef conditions, not enough people care about the ocean and its habitat. These circumstances motivate us to educate people about coral reef biology, and how to rehabilitate the damaged coral reef ecosystem and keep it intact.
We begin by learning about the inhabitants of the coral reefs, corals and fish. The first step is learning how to identify them. Let's explore several approaches for collecting data on corals and fish.
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