Coral Reefs and Associated Marine Fauna around the Arabian Peninsula

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Preface
Editor biographies
List of contributors
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: Spatiotemporal 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 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
Index