Coral Gardening — Bantayan Reef

OPP-36P8P6permanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-36P8P6

Published as: Coral seeding as a technology for recovering degraded coral reefs in the Philippines | Technique: Coral Gardening | Disturbance addressed: General degradation | Genera: Pocillopora | Method: Pocillopora damicornis planulae were seeded in the laboratory and onto the reef for a comparison of survival rates. Laboratory-reared planulae were then transplanted onto the reef to study size-related mortality. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 2.9% | Post-restoration monitoring: 4 months | Authors' conclusion: Laboratory-reared planulae survived much better than those seeded onto the reefs; of the latter, none remained after 3 weeks. Larger transplants fared best when outplanting laboratory-reared corals onto the reef. | Lessons reported: It's worth rearing corals in the laboratory to a certain size before outplanting. | 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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