The Red Sea is significantly warmer and more saline, even in its deepest waters, than other marine basins. These conditions offer opportunities for unique ecosystems to develop, such as deep warm-water coral frameworks. However, little is known about these deep coral ecosystems and their distribution in the Red Sea.

KAUST researchers, together with scientists in the U.S. and Italy, used a computer modeling approach combined with data gathered on ocean voyages to determine the likely distribution of deep warm-water coral frameworks in the northern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.

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