Transplantation — Virgin Islands National Park

OPP-Q5MHV1permanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-Q5MHV1

Published as: Transplantation of storm-generated coral fragments to enhance Caribbean coral reefs: a successful method but not a solution | Technique: Transplantation | Disturbance addressed: Storm | Genera: Acropora, Porites | Method: Coral fragments were collected from unfavourable habitat and transplanted to damaged reefs. Survival and growth of 60 transplanted fragments and 75 reference colonies were monitored for 12 years. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 5.33333% | Post-restoration monitoring: 144 months | Authors' conclusion: Only 9% of colonies were alive after 12 years: no A. cervicornis; 3% of A. palmata transplants and 18% of reference colonies; and 13% of P. porites transplants and 7% of reference colonies. Only A. palmata showed a difference between transplant and reference colony survival, and only in the first year. No coral conservation strategy will be effective until underlying intrinsic and/or extrinsic factors driving high mortality rates are understood and mitigated or eliminated. | Lessons reported: Physical dislodgement resulted in the loss of 56% of colonies, whereas 35% died in place. | 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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