Investigation of the effect physical parameters seawater on health branching corals in Chabahar Bay

based on the morphology and corallites structures, seventeen species of scleractinian corals in seven families were described from the chabahar bay, fourteen species of which are being reported for the first time from this bay. the identified species include  acropora valida dana, 1846,  acropora clathrata brook, 1891 and  acropora nausta dana, 1846 belonging to acroporidae, favia matthai vaugh...

temporal and spatial variation of zooplankton abundance, composition and biomass were examined on the chabahar bay, oman sea. the chabahar bay, a subtropical and semi-enclosed bay, provides an ideal breeding ground for many fish and shellfish. five stations were investigated along the bay. this area is under the influence of the indian ocean seasonal monsoons. zooplankton was collected with ver...

introduction tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large amount of water which is generated by underwater earthquake, volcano, landslide or other disturbances below water. the makran subduction zone (msz) is one of the regions that have potential to generate tsunami which also has been occurred in 1985 and is capable of another one. in msz, the coasts of chabahar ba...

desalination plants are potentially capable of having impacts on coastal marine environments due to the production of wastewater with high concentrations of salts (brine discharge) and some heavy metals. the aim of this study was to examine the concentration of accumulated metals (ni, cu, cd, fe, zn, pb) in the sediments near the brine discharge point in the chabahar bay. twenty one sediment sa...

Biodiversity and community structure of macrofauna of the intertidal sandy beach at Chabahar Bay were studied for a period of ten months in 2007. A total of 32 species were observed and identified in this study so that polychaete with 16 species was numerically dominant. The results showed changing densities were influenced by monsoon season so that maximum density (1935.47 ind/m2) was observed...

As the first phase of a series of monitoring and modeling studies of Iranian coastal areas, Chabahar Bay, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Oman, was under a comprehensive monitoring and modeling study in 2006-2007. The study included an extensive one-year field measurements program to help understanding the ongoing processes in the bay and provide inputs or boundary conditions and vali...