Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Providing science-based solutions to protect and restore ocean health
After two weeks, we’ve completed reef assessments around Rangiroa, Aratika, and Raraka and are now examining Fakarava. Tuamotu reefs are dramatically different from Society Islands. Besides the near absence of crown of thorns seastars (we’ve seen a handful in the …
Red Sea Coral Reef Trajectories over 2 Decades Suggest Increasing Community Homogenization and Decline in Coral Size Three independent line intercept transect surveys on northern Red Sea reef slopes conducted in 1988/9 and 1997/8 in Egypt and from 2006–9 in Saudi …
Diseases, Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs) and Their Effects on Gulf Coral Populations and Communities Gulf coral populations exist in a harsh environment, which only allows a small subset of the typical Indo-Pacific fauna and flora to persist and/or form viable populations (Sheppard …
Applying Habitat Maps and Biodiversity Assessments to Coral Reef Management The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is conducting a five year Global Reef Expedition (GRE) to map, characterize and assess coral reefs and develop tools and information to assist local …
Factors Contributing to the Regional Decline of Montastraea annularis (complex) Over the last 15 years the massive framework coral, Montastraea annularis (complex) has experienced a rapid decline in abundance, size and condition, and on many reefs in the western Atlantic these species …
Red Sea Coral Reef Trajectories over 2 Decades Suggest Increasing Community Homogenization and Decline in Coral Size Three independent line intercept transect surveys on northern Red Sea reef slopes conducted in 1988/9 and 1997/8 in Egypt and from 2006–9 in …
Factors contributing to the regional decline of Montastraea annularis (complex) Over the last 15 years the massive framework coral, Montastraea annularis (complex) has experienced a rapid decline in abundance, size and condition, and on many reefs in the western Atlantic …
By learning how to conduct a coral reef survey, you can make your own observations about aquatic resources near you. You may not live near a coral reef, but you can still use these methods to measure other important plants …
Between 1 August 2011 and 24 August 2011, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation conducted a coral reef research mission to Great Inagua, Little Inagua, and Hogsty Reef as part of the Global Reef Expedition. The research included two …
Estimating Coral Reef Benthic Coverage of Communities from Airborne Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data: Multiple Discriminant Function Analysis and Linear Spectral Unmixing A staged approach for the application of linear spectral unmixing techniques to airborne hyperspectral remote sensing data of reef communities …
