Sarah Al-Ateeqi1, Layla Isa Al-Musawi2, Virender K. Sharma3, Meshal Abdullah4,5, Xingmao Ma 6,7*
1 Public Authority for Agriculture and Fisheries Resources, Kuwait
2 Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, Kuwait
3 Department of Environment and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
4 Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
5 Natural Environmental Systems and Technologies (NEST) Research Group, Ecolife Sciences Research and Consultation, Kuwait
6 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
7 Address correspondence to Xingmao Ma, xma@civil.tamu.edu;
Author contributions: SA, LIA conceived and designed the research and carried out the field work and experiment; SA, LIA, VKS, MA, and XM analyzed data, write, and edited the manuscript.