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Title: Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025 – Chapter 9 – South Asia
Authors: Ahmad Ali Khan, Monica Montefalcone, Carlo Nike Bianchi, Carla Morri, Laura E. Richardson, Mohamed F.M. Fairoz, Patterson J.K. Edward, Jérémy Wicquart.
Contributor Roles: CRedIT statement for this chapter
Date: 31st August 2026
Institution: Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59387/LFPR6347.SA
Part of: Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025
Cite this chapter: Ali Khan, A., Montefalcone, M., Bianchi, C. N., Morri, C., et al. (2026). Chapter 9 – South Asia. In González-Rivero, M., et al. Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025. Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI). https://doi.org/10.59387/LFPR6347.SA
Copyright Information: Copyright © 2026, Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) and International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI).
Supplementary Material: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21824430
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With thanks to the co-authors of this chapter:
Ahmad Ali Khan; Carlo Nike Bianchi; Patterson J.K. Edward; Mohamed F.M. Fairoz; Monica Montefalcone; Carla Morri; Laura E. Richardson; Jérémy Wicquart.
Edited by: Manuel González-Rivero; Thomas Dallison; Jérémy Wicquart; Amanda Brigdale; Murray Logan; Emily K. Fobert; Francis Staub; Serge Planes.
With thanks to the data contributors:
Khadeeja Ali; Cassandra E. Benkwitt; Carlo Nike Bianchi; Abdul Raheem C. N.; Graham J. Edgar; Mohamed F.M. Fairoz; Jan Freiwald; Ida Elizabeth George; Javier Gonzalez-Barrios; Nicholas Graham; Nick Graham; Rachel Gunn; Shaha Aminath Hashim; Titus Immanuel; Vibitha M. A.; Jenny Mihaly; Monica Montefalcone; Carla Morri; Radhika Nair; Lizzi Oh; Edward J.K. Patterson; Morgan Pratchett; Rajkumar Rajan; Swetha V. Rajan; Laura Richardson; Ronan Roche; Jyodee Sannassy Pilly; Mohamed Shimal; Nina Tabitha Simon; Danielle Spring; Rick D. Stuart-Smith; John Turner; Shaun Wilson.
The GCRMN produces estimations regarding the status and trends of coral reefs using data acquired by the members of the GCRMN network. The data are collected following Data Sharing Agreements (DSA) with data contributors and as such the GCRMN is not the owner of datasets shared by its members. Therefore, for the “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025” report, the GCRMN is unable to share the raw datasets. However, some members of the GCRMN network and report contributors have made their datasets publicly available. For benthic cover monitoring data, such open access datasets are listed here.
All code used to produce the results and figures presented in the “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025” GCRMN report is openly available on a GitHub repository. This repository allows full reproducibility and transparency of the analyses.
