Towards more sustainable coastal development in the Arabian Gulf: Opportunities for ecological engineering in an urbanized seascape

JA Burt, A Bartholomew - Marine pollution bulletin, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The coastlines of many Arabian cities are now dominated by structures such as seawalls,
breakwaters and jetties as urbanization has expanded rapidly in the region. Coastal …

Haven or hell? A perspective on the ecology of offshore oil and gas platforms

IS Fortune, AS Madgett… - PLOS Sustainability …, 2024‏ - journals.plos.org
Offshore oil and gas platforms (OGP) have been installed worldwide and initially with limited
consideration given to the nature of their positive or negative long-term interactions with the …

[HTML][HTML] Annotated checklist of the fishes of the Persian Gulf: Diversity and conservation status

S EAGDERI, R FRICKE, HR ESMAEILI… - Iranian Journal of …, 2019‏ - ijichthyol.org
This checklist aims to reviews and summarize the results of the systematic researches on the
Persian Gulf ichthyofauna that has been carried out for more than 200 years. Since the work …

The arabian gulf

GO Vaughan, N Al-Mansoori, JA Burt - World seas: An environmental …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Arabian/Persian Gulf is a geologically young sea bordered by eight rapidly
develo** nations. Its marine and coastal systems contain a diverse and interconnected …

Using vertebrate environmental DNA from seawater in biomonitoring of marine habitats

EE Sigsgaard, F Torquato, TG Frøslev… - Conservation …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Conservation and management of marine biodiversity depends on biomonitoring of marine
habitats, but current approaches are resource‐intensive and require different approaches for …

Fine‐scale environmental heterogeneity shapes fluvial fish communities as revealed by eDNA metabarcoding

CS Berger, C Hernandez, M Laporte, G Côté… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Conservation of freshwater biodiversity requires being able to track the presence and
abundance of entire fish communities. However, studying fish community composition within …

A comparison of stereo-BRUVs and stereo-ROV techniques for sampling shallow water fish communities on and off pipelines

KD Schramm, MJ Marnane, TS Elsdon, C Jones… - Marine Environmental …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
We compared and contrasted fish assemblage data sampled by baited remote underwater
stereo-video systems (stereo-BRUVs) and stereo-video remotely operated vehicles (stereo …

Complementary molecular and visual sampling of fish on oil and gas platforms provides superior biodiversity characterisation

JB Alexander, MJ Marnane, TS Elsdon, M Bunce… - Marine Environmental …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Offshore oil and gas platforms have the potential to provide complex refugia for fish and
benthic colonisers. We compare two methods of biodiversity assessment for fish and …

Applying a low cost, mini remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to assess an ecological baseline of an indigenous seascape in Canada

E Buscher, DL Mathews, C Bryce, K Bryce… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Marine ecosystems are facing unprecedented threats. Baseline information about the state
of ecosystems is needed to address these threats. Ecosystem assessments can be …

Remotely operated vehicles as alternatives to snorkellers for video-based marine research

V Raoult, L Tosetto, C Harvey, TM Nelson… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Capabilities of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) have increased substantially in the last
decade, and mini-ROV designs are now able to conduct visual research frequently …