Substrate Addition - Artificial reef — Biscayne

OPP-44G8JApermanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-44G8JA

Published as: Building a coral reef in southeast Florida: Combining technology and aesthetics. | Technique: Substrate Addition - Artificial reef | Disturbance addressed: ship grounding | Genera: n/a | Method: Concrete balls were cast into hollow dome shapes, and fragmented corals were cemented onto the domes. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 87.5% | Post-restoration monitoring: 120 months | Authors' conclusion: The concrete domes show no signs of deterioration after 10 years, and a high proportion of transplanted corals survived. Furthermore, a large number of hard and soft-coral recruits have settled onto the domes. The fish community was intermediate compared to a natural reef patch and the sea floor after 10 years. | 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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