Transplantation — Bolinao

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Published as: Physiological and ecological aspects of coral transplantation | Technique: Transplantation | Disturbance addressed: General degradation | Genera: Porites | Method: The growth and mortality of transplants of two species of scleractinian corals, Porites cylindrica and P. rus were monitored over 16 months in a reef in the northwestern Philippines. Transplants were in two sizes and deployed at two depths (1 and 10 m). | Post-restoration monitoring: 16 months | Authors' conclusion: Specimens at the shallow depth had more rapid growth than the deeper ones. Light had significant effects on coral growth while temperature, salinity, water motion and sedimentation did not. Smaller corals consistently registered greater percentage increases in size as compared to the larger ones. Small transplants of P. cylindrica showed higher percentage growth rates than those of P. rus. There were no differences in transplant mortality due to size. | 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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