Coral Gardening — Florida

OPP-TM0J0Gpermanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-TM0J0G

Published as: Land-based coral nurseries: A valuable tool for production and transplantation of Acropora cervicornis | Technique: Coral Gardening | Genera: Acropora | Method: Comparison of fragments reared in in-situ and ex-situ nurseries. Survival and growth are compared in several experiments during the nursery and outplanting stages. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 90.12% | Post-restoration monitoring: 12 months | Authors' conclusion: Survival was lower in the land-based nursery, largely due to a mechanical failure. Linear extension was lower in the land-based nursery until nursery conditions were optimized, then linear extension in the land based nursery exceeded the offshore nursery. There were no significant differences in survival or growth of fragments outplanted from a land-based nursery and an offshore nursery. Survival ranged from 85% to 100% after six months, and survival ranged from 70% to 89% after one year and the passing of two tropical storms. Small (5 cm) transplants did not have significantly lower survivor… | Lessons reported: A. cervicornis can be successfully grown in a land-based nursery, and linear extension and fragment production can be higher than in offshore nurseries if environmental conditions are maintained within optimum ranges. This experiment highlights some of the conditions that promoted high linear extension rates in this species. Large colony transplants exhibited the best survivorship and extension r… | 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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