Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Pulau batee is one of small island in aceh besar district, unpopulated and dealing with indian ocean. pulau batee has potential of marine life especially coral reef ecosystem and other ossosiation. the aim of this research was to know the percentage and comparison life coral coverage in pulau batee and to know the genus composition of coral reef in pulau batee. this research has done on october-november 2016. the data of coral reef was acquired by line intercept transect methode. the result of this research was found that coral reef coverage in pulau batee waters between east pulau batee and west pulau batee is different. the average of coral reef in pulau batee waters at shallow marine (0-5m) is 41.41% and deep marine (6-10m) is 35.52%. over all, the condition and the coverage life coral in medium criteria. in pulau batee waters there are 31 genuses of coral with the highest genus is acropora (50.02%). keyword : pulau batee, coral reef, lit, condition, coral coverage, genus