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In the Red Sea, Gulf and Arabian Sea, several severe 
environments stress coral communities and ultimately 
extinguish them. Stressed reef slope conditions arise from 
sedimentation, mangroves, dune incursion, and raised 
temperature and salinity. Stressed communities are firstly, 
high cover, near- monogeneric ones of Acropora  then Porites, 
ending as those of poor cover on fossil or calcareous algal 
reefs dominated by large phaeophytes.