Coral reef science has grown exponentially in recent decades in the Gulf. Analysis of
literature from 1950 to 2012 identified 270 publications on coral reefs in the Gulf, half of …

This report summarises the status of coral reefs in the ROPME Sea Area which includes
Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE); there are …

Abstract Burt, JA, Feary, DA, Bauman, AG, Usseglio, P., Cavalcante, GH, and Sale, PF 2011.
Biogeographic patterns of reef fish community structure in the northeastern Arabian …

Six percent of the world's coral reefs occur around the Arabian Peninsula, providing a
valuable ecological, economic and scientific resource for the nations bordering its shores …

An assessment of vertical distribution, diel migration, taxonomic and functional diversity of
fishes was carried out at offshore platforms in The (Arabian–Iranian–Persian) Gulf. Video …

Abstract The southern Persian/Arabian Gulf experiences extreme seasonal temperature
variation (> 20° C) making it among the most hostile reef environments on Earth. Previous …

Coral reefs are facing global challenges, with climate change causing recurrent coral
bleaching events at a faster rate than corals may be able to recover from, and leading to an …

Questions of sexuality are always prismatic, caught up in many shifts and turns and
interconnections. The vast scholarship on sexuality and matters of 'the sexual'which has …

This study aimed to understand the structure and function of the artificial reef ecosystem of
the Sea of Oman and its stability and maturity. For this study, the trophic model of the Sea of …

The Persian Gulf is a thermally extreme environment in which reef corals have adapted to
survive through temperature ranges that would be lethal to corals from other regions …