Coral Gardening — Culebra and Vieques Islands

OPP-5FRMS4permanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-5FRMS4

Published as: Bomb-cratered coral reefs in Puerto Rico, the untold story about a novel habitat: from reef destruction to community-based ecological rehabilitation | Technique: Coral Gardening | Disturbance addressed: Military bombing | Genera: Acropora | Method: Comparison of benthic communities on 35-50 year-old bomb-cratered coral reefs with adjacent non-impacted sites; 2) coral recruit density and fish community structure within and outside craters; and 3) early effects of a rehabilitation effort using low-tech coral farming. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 83.5% | Post-restoration monitoring: 12 months | Authors' conclusion: Outplanted colonies showed outstanding survival and growth rates and contributed to coral cover. | Lessons reported: Low-tech, community based approaches to culture, harvest and transplant A. cervicornis into formerly bombarded grounds proved highly successful in fomenting increasing benthic spatial heterogeneity, while fostering meaningful community-based participation. | 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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