Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
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Global Reef Expedition San Andres Archipelago, Colombia Field Report April 9-24, 2012 The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF), in partnership with CORALINA, completed a 15 day research mission (April 9-24) on three remote banks (Bajo Nuevo, Banco Alicia, …
Applying Habitat Maps and Biodiversity Assessments to Coral Reef Management The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is conducting a five year Global Reef Expedition (GRE) to map, characterize and assess coral reefs and develop tools and information to assist local …
Factors Contributing to the Regional Decline of Montastraea annularis (complex) Over the last 15 years the massive framework coral, Montastraea annularis (complex) has experienced a rapid decline in abundance, size and condition, and on many reefs in the western Atlantic these species …
Revealing the Appetite of the Marine Aquarium Fish Trade: The Volume and Biodiversity of Fish Imported into the United States The marine aquarium fish trade and other wildlife consumers are at a crossroads forced by threats from global climate change …
Red Sea Coral Reef Trajectories over 2 Decades Suggest Increasing Community Homogenization and Decline in Coral Size Three independent line intercept transect surveys on northern Red Sea reef slopes conducted in 1988/9 and 1997/8 in Egypt and from 2006–9 in …
Factors contributing to the regional decline of Montastraea annularis (complex) Over the last 15 years the massive framework coral, Montastraea annularis (complex) has experienced a rapid decline in abundance, size and condition, and on many reefs in the western Atlantic …
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is now fully immersed in our historic Global Reef Expedition. We are circumnavigating the globe aboard the M/Y Golden Shadow research vessel in a quest to rapidly map and survey many of the …
Reduced Expression of the Rate-Limiting Carbon Fixation Enzyme RuBisCO in the Benthic Foraminifer Baculogypsina sphaerulata holobiont in Response to Heat Shock Baculogypsina sphaerulata (Parker and Jones, 1860) is a common large benthic foraminifer (LBF) and is an important calcifier in coral …
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) completed three Bahamas marine research missions during 2011: Cay Sal Bank (4/26/11-5/18/11), Great Inagua, Little Inagua and Hogsty Reef (8/1/11-8/24/11) and Andros Island (10/1/11-10/6/11). Research was undertaken by scientists from KSLOF, the National Coral …
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF), in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, conducted a research mission to Pedro Bank, Jamaica between March 10-20, 2012 as part of the Global Reef Expedition. The research team included scientists from KSLOF, …