Transplantation — Cousin Island Special Reserve

OPP-K685RYpermanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-K685RY

Published as: Large-scale coral reef restoration could assist natural recovery in Seychelles, Indian Ocean | Technique: Transplantation | Disturbance addressed: General degradation | Genera: Acropora, Pocillopora | Method: The authors quantified how coral transplantation influenced natural coral recruitment at a large-scale coral reef restoration site. A total of 24,431 nursery-grown coral colonies from 10 different coral species were transplanted in 5,225 m2 (0.52 ha) of degraded reef at the no-take marine reserve. Settlement tiles were deployed to measure recruitment. | Post-restoration monitoring: 24 months | Authors' conclusion: Six months after tile deployment, total spat density at the transplanted site was 1.8 times higher than at a healthy control site and 1.6 times higher than at a degraded site. Two years after first transplantation, the total recruit density was highest at healthy site, intermediate at transplanted site, and lowest at degraded site. | 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.

Recorded result

No result recorded yet. A result is recorded when the project moves to Paused, Completed or Discontinued.

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.