Transplantation — Thousand Islands

OPP-SHGDX3permanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-SHGDX3

Published as: Coral transplant survival over 3 years under different environmental conditions at the Hundred Islands, Philippines | Technique: Transplantation | Disturbance addressed: Destructive fishing | Genera: Acropora, Montipora, Pavona, Porites | Method: An effort to rehabilitate degraded reef areas involved transplantation of branch fragments of the hard corals Acropora microphthalma, A. echinata, A. abrolhosensis, Montipora foliosa, Pavona cactus and Porites cylindrica (order Scleractinia) from healthy communities to different islands of the Hundred Islands chain in the Philippines. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 25.7778% | Post-restoration monitoring: 36 months | Authors' conclusion: Different species responded differently under varying combinations of water clarity and turbulence, which decreased along a rough gradient from north to south. In the north, Porites cylindrica survived moderately well (30%) after 36 mo compared with Montipora foliosa (17%) and Acropora microphthalma (14%). In the central sector, P. cylindrica (57%) and Pavona cactus (41%) survived better than A. echinata (31%). Where turbidity was highest (the south), all transplants fared poorly – P. cylindrica (14 %), A. abrolhosensis (23 %) and P. cactus (5 %). Coral species that survived at the transplant… | Lessons reported: These results have important applications in coral restoration efforts in other tropical regions because the species studied are relatively common | 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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