Environmental Concerns for the Future of Gulf Coral Reefs

Charles Sheppard; Mohsen Al-Husiani; F. Al-Jamali; Faiza Al-Yamani; Rob Baldwin; James Bishop; Francesca Benzoni; Eric Dutrieux; Nicholas K. Dulvy; Subba Rao V. Durvasula; David A. Jones; Ron Loughland; David Medio; M. Nithyanandan; Graham M. Pilling; Igor Polikarpov; Andrew R.G. Price; Sam J. Purkis; Bernhard M. Riegl; Maria Saburova; Kaveh Samimi-Namin; Oliver Taylor; Simon Wilson; Khadija Zainal

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Environmental Concerns for the Future of Gulf Coral Reefs

Charles Sheppard^*, Mohsen Al-Husiani, F. Al-Jamali, Faiza Al-Yamani, Rob Baldwin, James Bishop, Francesca Benzoni, Eric Dutrieux, Nicholas K. Dulvy, Subba Rao V. Durvasula, David A. Jones, Ron Loughland, David Medio, M. Nithyanandan, Graham M. Pilling, Igor Polikarpov, Andrew R.G. Price, Sam J. Purkis, Bernhard M. Riegl, Maria SaburovaKaveh Samimi-Namin, Oliver Taylor, Simon Wilson, Khadija Zainal

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Abstract

The Gulf is located in a subtropical, hyper-arid region. It is shallow, and bordered by several wealthy states (Fig. 16.1) undergoing rapid economic growth involving substantial construction along shores and offshore regions, underpinned by its oil and gas industry, and by wealth derived from financial centres. Thriving economic activity has, over the past few decades, begun to exert significant pressure on the Gulf’s marine environment. It is changing rapidly, by developments which include construction, substantial coastline alterations, habitat loss, creation of beds of shifting or suspended sediments, and temperature and salinity changes in restricted water flows along the coast, as well as by climate warming. The Gulf suffers from a “shifting baseline syndrome” (Pauly 1995; Sheppard 1995) and it is difficult to find any meaningful baselines, not only because of ongoing, intensive constructions that cause large-scale alterations of the environment, but also because of several recent episodes of marine mortality from seawater warming.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Coral Reefs of the World
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	349-373
Number of pages	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3008-3_16
State	Published - 2012

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Name	Coral Reefs of the World
Volume	3
ISSN (Print)	2213-719X
ISSN (Electronic)	2213-7203

Keywords

Ballast Water
Coral Community
Coral Cover
Coral Reef
Coral Species

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Animal Science and Zoology
Aquatic Science
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Ecological Modeling

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Sheppard, C., Al-Husiani, M., Al-Jamali, F., Al-Yamani, F., Baldwin, R., Bishop, J., Benzoni, F., Dutrieux, E., Dulvy, N. K., Durvasula, S. R. V., Jones, D. A., Loughland, R., Medio, D., Nithyanandan, M., Pilling, G. M., Polikarpov, I., Price, A. R. G., Purkis, S. J., Riegl, B. M., ... Zainal, K. (2012). Environmental Concerns for the Future of Gulf Coral Reefs. In Coral Reefs of the World (pp. 349-373). (Coral Reefs of the World; Vol. 3). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3008-3_16

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