Coral Gardening - Transplantation Phase — Eilat

OPP-2R8GRDpermanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-2R8GRD

Published as: Strategies for Gardening Denuded Coral Reef Areas: The Applicability of Using Different Types of Coral Material for Reef Restoration. | Technique: Coral Gardening - Transplantation Phase | Disturbance addressed: Diver damage | Genera: Stylophora | Method: Transplant experiment: test survival of fragments on two sites: one highly visited by scuba divers and one protected | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 53.75% | Post-restoration monitoring: 6 months | Authors' conclusion: Higher survival (83%) on protected site, compared to site with heavy scuba diving pressure (25%). Isolated branches of S. pistillata had higher survivorship than small colonies, however the small colonies grew 10 times faster than isolated branches. | Lessons reported: Small colonies can successfully be relocated from high disturbance sites into nurseries | 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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