TY - JOUR
T1 - The status of coral reef ecology research in the Red Sea
AU - Berumen, Michael L.
AU - Hoey, Andrew
AU - Bass, William H.
AU - Bouwmeester, Jessica
AU - Catania, Daniela
AU - Cochran, Jesse
AU - Khalil, Maha T.
AU - Miyake, Sou
AU - Mughal, Mehreen
AU - Spaet, Julia L.Y.
AU - Saenz Agudelo, Pablo
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2013/6/21
Y1 - 2013/6/21
N2 - The Red Sea has long been recognized as a region of high biodiversity and endemism. Despite this diversity and early history of scientific work, our understanding of the ecology of coral reefs in the Red Sea has lagged behind that of other large coral reef systems. We carried out a quantitative assessment of ISI-listed research published from the Red Sea in eight specific topics (apex predators, connectivity, coral bleaching, coral reproductive biology, herbivory, marine protected areas, non-coral invertebrates and reef-associated bacteria) and compared the amount of research conducted in the Red Sea to that from Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and the Caribbean. On average, for these eight topics, the Red Sea had 1/6th the amount of research compared to the GBR and about 1/8th the amount of the Caribbean. Further, more than 50 % of the published research from the Red Sea originated from the Gulf of Aqaba, a small area (
AB - The Red Sea has long been recognized as a region of high biodiversity and endemism. Despite this diversity and early history of scientific work, our understanding of the ecology of coral reefs in the Red Sea has lagged behind that of other large coral reef systems. We carried out a quantitative assessment of ISI-listed research published from the Red Sea in eight specific topics (apex predators, connectivity, coral bleaching, coral reproductive biology, herbivory, marine protected areas, non-coral invertebrates and reef-associated bacteria) and compared the amount of research conducted in the Red Sea to that from Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and the Caribbean. On average, for these eight topics, the Red Sea had 1/6th the amount of research compared to the GBR and about 1/8th the amount of the Caribbean. Further, more than 50 % of the published research from the Red Sea originated from the Gulf of Aqaba, a small area (
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/566045
UR - http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00338-013-1055-8
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84881245211&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00338-013-1055-8
DO - 10.1007/s00338-013-1055-8
M3 - Article
SN - 0722-4028
VL - 32
SP - 737
EP - 748
JO - Coral Reefs
JF - Coral Reefs
IS - 3
ER -
