Substrate addition - artificial reef, transplantation — Galu Falhu, Malée

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Published as: An evaluation of artificial reef structures as tools for marine habitat rehabilitation in the Maldives. | Technique: Substrate addition - artificial reef, transplantation | Disturbance addressed: Coral mining | Genera: Acropora, Astreopora, Cyphastrea, Favia, Favites, Galaxea, Goniastrea, Heliopora, Hydnophora, Leptastrea, Lobophyllia, Montastrea, Montipora, Pavona, Pocillopora, Porites, Psammocora, Symphyllia | Method: Corals were transplanted onto some of the artificial reef structures (above) to test whether transplantation would accelerate reef recovery. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 50% | Post-restoration monitoring: 42 months | Authors' conclusion: Twenty-nine months after transplantation, 41–59% of corals still survived on the concrete mattresses. | Lessons reported: Coral transplantation was a costly and time-consuming activity of doubtful efficacy. | 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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