The environmental costs of coastal urbanization in the Arabian Gulf

JA Burt - City, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Coastal urbanization has expanded rapidly in recent decades in the Arabian Gulf and this
has put increasing pressure on important but underappreciated coastal ecosystems …

[HTML][HTML] Oman's coral reefs: A unique ecosystem challenged by natural and man-related stresses and in need of conservation

JA Burt, S Coles, H Van Lavieren, O Taylor… - Marine pollution …, 2016 - Elsevier
Oman contains diverse and abundant reef coral communities that extend along a coast that
borders three environmentally distinct water bodies, with corals existing under unique and …

The changing dynamics of coral reef science in Arabia

GO Vaughan, JA Burt - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2016 - Elsevier
Six percent of the world's coral reefs occur around the Arabian Peninsula, providing a
valuable ecological, economic and scientific resource for the nations bordering its shores …

Persian Gulf reefs: an important asset for climate science in urgent need of protection

JA Burt, DA Feary, H Van Lavieren - 2013 - nyuscholars.nyu.edu
The eight countries surrounding the Persian Gulf–Bahrain, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates–share a valuable ecosystem that, like many …

[PDF][PDF] B31–a giant iceberg in the Southern Ocean

GR Bigg, R Marsh, DJ Wilton, V Ivchenko - Ocean Challenge, 2014 - ice.aari.aq
Why 'B31'? For icebergs greater than 10 nautical miles in any one horizontal direction, the
US National Ice Center uses a naming convention which relates to the sector of Antarctica …