Restore

Coral disease is a serious threat to coral reefs worldwide and the first step to protecting reefs from disease outbreaks is to get an understanding of what diseases occur on your reefs, what species are affected and what the 'normal' disease levels are. As such, we are conducting the first baseline disease surveys on the reefs of Qatar and looking at the microbiomes of a common coral species on these reefs, Platygyra daedalea.

Another recent publication from our group on the potential effect of Climate Change Coral and Reef Fish

Coral and Reef Fish Communities in the Thermally Extreme Persian/Arabian Gulf: Insights into Potential Climate Change Effects Coral reefs are facing global challenges, with climate change causing recurrent coral bleaching events at a faster rate than corals may be able to recover from, and leading to an overall decline of...