Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
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Morphology and Marine Ecology of Boudeuse, Amirantes, Seychelles The Amirantes group, Seychelles, comprises 24 islands and islets lying between 5o and 6o south of the equator on the Amirantes Bank, western Indian Ocean. The group extends over a distance of …
Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005 Background: The rising temperature of the world’s oceans has become a major threat to coral reefs globally as the severity and frequency of mass coral bleaching and mortality events …
Western Atlantic Coral Reef Health and Resilience Cards The Western Atlantic Health and Resilience Cards provide photographic examples of the dominant habitat features and biological indicators of coral reef condition, health and resilience to future perturbations. Representative examples of benthic substrates types, indicators …
Field Guide to Western Atlantic Coral Diseases This Field Guide to Western Atlantic Coral Diseases uses standardized nomenclature and diagnostic criteria for coral diseases developed by the Coral Disease and Health Consortium (CDHC). This involves a three-tiered approach to naming diseases and a …
Improving Restoration Approaches for Acropora palmata: Lessons from the Fortuna Reefer Grounding in Puerto Rico Detached Acropora palmata fragments (n=1857) generated by the M/V Fortuna Reefer grounding off Mona Island, Puerto Rico were secured to reef substrates or dead standing A. …
Implications of Coral Harvest and Transplantation on Reefs in Northwestern Dominica In June, 2002, the government of Dominica requested assistance in evaluating the coral culture and transplantation activities being undertaken by Oceanographic Institute of Dominica (OID), a coral farm culturing both western …
Development of an Island Habitat Classification Scheme for the Amirante Islands, Seychelles A collaborative expedition between Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Cambridge Coastal Research Unit and Seychelles Centre for Marine Research and Technology – Marine Parks Authority (SCMRT-MPA) was …
Crawling to Collapse: Ecologically Unsound Ornamental Invertebrate Fisheries Background: Fishery management has historically been an inexact and reactionary discipline, often taking action only after a critical stock suffers overfishing or collapse. The invertebrate ornamental fishery in the State of Florida, with …
Coral Health and Disease in the Pacific: Vision for Action “We are studying arguably the most complicated ecosystem on the face of the Earth, and it is under serious threat…..We have an incredibly important message, if this ecosystem dies, if …