• Are offshore platforms a good candidate to restore functional diversity of reef fish communities in the Arabian Gulf? 

      Riera, Rodrigo; Torquato, Felipe; Range, Pedro; Ben-Hamadou, Radhouan; Møller, Peter Daniel Rask; Tuset, Víctor M. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-04)
      Human-made structures are ubiquitous in the marine realm. Complex structures such as oil and gas platforms may constitute a suitable habitat for species in areas where natural reefs have been highly degraded by coastal development. We here explore the suitability of fish assemblages associated to offshore platforms as surrogates for depleted fish stocks from coastal areas. Taxonomic and functional ...
    • Physical–biological interactions underlying the connectivity patterns of coral-dependent fishes around the Arabian Peninsula 

      Torquato, Felipe; Møller, Peter Daniel Rask (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-09)
      Aim: Distribution patterns of lineages alone do not explain the processes underlying phylogenetic differentiation in fishes observed around the Arabian Peninsula, whose hypotheses traditionally rely on (i) Pleistocene vicariance events, (ii) successive bottlenecks, (iii) recent founder effects (iv) and large spatial gradients in physical conditions. In this study, we test the hypothesis that ...
    • Population genetic structure of a major reef-building coral species Acropora downingi in northeastern Arabian Peninsula 

      Torquato, Felipe; Bouwmeester, Jessica; Range, Pedro; Marshell, Alyssa; Priest, Mark A.; Burt, John A.; Møller, Peter Daniel Rask; Ben-Hamadou, Radhouan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-03)
      Current seawater temperatures around the northeastern Arabian Peninsula resemble future global forecasts as temperatures [35 C are commonly observed in summer. To provide a more fundamental aim of understanding the structure of wild populations in extreme environmental conditions, we conducted a population genetic study of a widespread, regional endemic table coral species, Acropora downingi, ...