Plankton and Some Environmental Variables as a Water Quality Indicator for Saline Pools at the Western Red Sea (Saudi Arabia)

Hussein Elsayed Touliabah^1,2*, Elbassat RA^3,4, Tourk AJ¹, Affan MA⁵, Hariri MS¹, Hassanine RME¹, Abdulwassi NIH⁶ and Almutairi AW¹

¹Biological Sciences Department, Rabigh-Faculty of Science & Arts, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

²Botany Department, Egypt Girls College for Science, Arts & Education, Ain Shams University, Egypt

³Biology Department, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

⁴Hydrology Lab, National Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Saudi Arabia

⁵Marine Biology Science, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

⁶Biological Science Department, Girls Branch, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia