Transplantation — Mona Island

OPP-EP7NA9permanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-EP7NA9

Published as: Condition of restored Acropora palmata fragments off Mona Island, Puerto Rico, 2 years after the Fortuna Reefer ship grounding. | Technique: Transplantation | Disturbance addressed: Ship grounding | Genera: Acropora | Method: Nail and tie method used to attached fragments dislodged from a ship grounding | Post-restoration monitoring: 24 months | Authors' conclusion: Unable to determine mortality since only a subset of original branches were re-examined. Of those examined 57.5 % had live tissue remaining, and only 10% had fused to the substratum. No effect of orientation on growth. The data suggests larger fragments have a higher proportion live tissue | Lessons reported: Cable ties became dislodged with wave action, switched to stainless steel wire instead. However 73% of fragments examined had tissue mortality where the wire touched the coral | This record was compiled from a published source and has not been confirmed by the organisation that carried out the work. No contribution to the condition index is recorded: the source reports survival of transplanted material, which is not a measure of ecosystem condition.

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