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Rezai, H., S. Wilson, M. Claereboudt and B. Riegl,
2004
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Coral Reef Status in the Ropme Sea Area: Arabian/Persian Gulf, Gulf Of Oman and Arabian Sea.
p: 155-170 in C. Wilkinson (ed.). Status of coral reefs of the world: 2004. Volume 1. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. 301 p.
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23045
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Rezai, H., S. Wilson, M. Claereboudt and B. Riegl
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2004
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Coral Reef Status in the Ropme Sea Area: Arabian/Persian Gulf, Gulf Of Oman and Arabian Sea.
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p: 155-170 in C. Wilkinson (ed.). Status of coral reefs of the world: 2004. Volume 1. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. 301 p.
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coral reef monitoring, management, status reports
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Abstract
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This report summarises the status of coral reefs in the ROPME Sea Area which includes
Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE); there are
no coral reefs in Iraq. The region can be split into three parts according to the local marine
climate, which strongly influences the nature of the coral communities: the Persian/Arabian
Gulf (hereafter called ‘the Gulf’); the Gulf of Oman; and the Arabian Sea.
The Gulf region was amongst the worst affected by coral bleaching events in 1996, 1998 and 2002,
which reduced live coral cover in many shallow areas to less than 1%. There has been very little
recovery, except in a few areas close to deeper water and away from additional human impacts.
Coastal engineering, land reclamation and dredging are causing significant environmental
damage along the mainland coast, particularly in UAE and Bahrain, while offshore islands are
protected either actively (as MPAs) or passively (as military or industrial zones). Any future coral
reef conservation effort must be concentrated on these islands in order to be effective.
Coral communities in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea remain in good condition, due in
part to the mitigating effects of the summer monsoon upwelling that cools summer seawater
temperatures. Coral cover in the Gulf of Oman is typically 30-40% at depths of 4-12 m, but
live cover decreases very rapidly in deeper water. This range is consistent with earlier results
and suggests that the condition of corals in the Gulf of Oman has not changed significantly in
the past 10 years, although there is considerable temporal variability of live cover at some sites
due to crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) outbreaks and periodic recruitment episodes. Unlike
the Gulf, coastal industrial development in coral rich areas in Oman does not generally involve
large-scale land reclamation or dredging, although the discharge of cooling water is a concern
in one area. Fishing remains the major human threat to coral communities in this area.
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