Coral gardening - transplantation, substrate addition - artificial reefs — Maiden Island

OPP-XZ1N5Kpermanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-XZ1N5K

Completed (successful/maintained)Monitoring: ended

Published as: Antigua Maiden Island Reef Restoration | Technique: Coral gardening - transplantation, substrate addition - artificial reefs | Genera: Mixed | Method: Twenty one boatloads of corals (17.5 tons, 5000+ coral colonies) were removed from danger and transported to Maiden Island. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 95% | Post-restoration monitoring: 24 months | Lessons reported: The big advantage, however, of the attachment adapter system is volume. Using traditional methods, a skilled diver may plant 10 corals in an hour. Using the Reef Ball plug system a relatively unskilled diver can transplant 100 corals or more per hour. This ten fold increase in efficiency and ability to use quickly trained volunteers instead of life long experts makes coral restoration practical o… | 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.

Goal

Mitigate anticipated coral loss prior to a known disturbance

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Settlement density

1 variable · 0.01 km² · 2011-01-01 to 2013-01-01 · recorded at Completed (successful/maintained)

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Settlement density · 1.2.3.1

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0 → 0.0095 ind/m2 · health 0.0% → 0.0%

Method: Settlement density derived from the source: 100 colonies × 95% survival ÷ 10000 m² = 0.0095 ind/m². Before is zero because the technique places new substrate where no reef existed (Coral gardening - transplantation, substrate addition - artificial reefs). Dates derived from Year of publication (2013) and the monitoring period, because the source states no field dates; Post monitoring length: 24 months. Dates do not enter the computation..

A variable shows "pending" instead of a contribution when no domain area has been set for it yet — the share of the world a project touched cannot be computed without one. The health percentages are accurate regardless.