Coral Reefs and Associated Marine Fauna around the Arabian Peninsula

Najeeb M.A. Rasul obtained a Ph.D. in Geological Oceanography from the University of Wales, Swansea, U.K. He was with the Faculty of Marine Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, before joining the Saudi Geological Survey, where he was a Technical Adviser until 2022, and Head of the Center for Marine Geology from 2003 to 2010. He has held key research positions at the Geological and Geophysical Research Systems in Canada, the Challenger Division for Seafloor Processes at the Southampton Oceanography Centre, currently NOC, Southampton, and Environment Canada. He has conducted research cruises with European Union research centres, including the Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR), Italy, to the Red Sea and the IOC-UNESCO (TTR programme) in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. He was a EUROMARGINS and Saudi Scientific Coordinator. He has also been involved in research projects as chief scientist and principal investigator in the Western Basin of Lake Erie, the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and the Arabian Sea, and currently the Red Sea. His research interests have concentrated on both shallow and deepwater sedimentary processes, depositional mechanisms and environmental aspects.Ian C.F. Stewart received a Ph.D. in seismology from the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He is an independent geophysical consultant based in Adelaide, and has worked for numerous mining and oil companies in Australia, the Middle East, and elsewhere. From 1974 until 1982, he was with the Department of Earth Sciences at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, where he taught geophysics. He then carried out research for Saudi Aramco in the Exploration Department in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, from 1982 until 1996, and was in charge of the development and application of potential field methods throughout the Kingdom. Later he was involved in geophysical exploration in Australia. He was the Geophysical Technical Adviser to the Saudi Geological Survey (SGS), Jeddah, between 2003 and 2013, applying geophysical methods for mineral and groundwater exploration in the Kingdom, as well as carrying out earthquake studies. He is a member of several international organizations and has published numerous papers in addition to reports for the SGS, Saudi Aramco and other companies.

• 1. Introduction to coral reefs and associated marine fauna around the Arabian Peninsula Part 1: CORAL BIOLOGY 2. The Red Sea coral reef cryptobiome: spatial and temporal patterns 3. Assessment of coral communities along Sudan’s Red Sea coast 4. Status of coral reefs along the Egyptian Red Sea coast 5. Thermal history of coral reefs along the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea 6. Coral reefs in the world's warmest sea: The paradoxical vulnerability of the world's most robust corals 7. Coral Reefs in the Pearl of the Gulf – Bahrain Part 2: FISH 8. Mesopelagic fishes in the Red Sea 9. Fish larvae distribution in the western Arabian Gulf: Spatio-temporal patterns in relation to water column characteristics 10. Photo-identification of the oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) at Elphinstone Reef, Egypt, Red Sea Part 3: INVERTEBRATES 11. Pearl oysters in Bahrain: Economic, heritage and biological aspects 12. An annotated checklist of heterobranch molluscs of the Arabian Gulf and their zoogeographic affinities with adjacent seas 13. Sea slugs of the Red Sea: a ‘molecular’ update Part 4: BENTHOS 14. Community structure and spatial variations in the benthic crustaceans of the western Arabian Gulf 15. The biology, ecology and life history of Brachyuran crabs of the Arabian Gulf 16. Meiofauna - present status in the Arabian Gulf Part 5: BACTERIA, ALGAE and PHYTOPLANKTON 17. Bacterial communities and metabolic functions profiled by MG-RAST: An example from Kuwaiti waters 18. Harmful algae in the Red Sea 19. A comparison of potentially harmful microalgae and the phytoplankton blooms in the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea 20. Phytoplankton community dynamics in the Western Arabian Gulf: Spatial and seasonal trends Part 6: MARINE REPTILES 21. Natural History and Biometrics of Sea Turtle Populations Nesting in the Saudi Arabian Waters of the Arabian Gulf 22. Status of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) at Zabargad Island, southern Egyptian Red Sea 23. Sea Turtle Nesting Beach Conditions in the Western Arabian Gulf Part 7: MARINE MAMMALS 24. Dugong feeding ecology along the Egyptian Red Sea