Coral Gardening - Transplantation Phase — Changuu, Zanzibar and Kitutia, Mafia

OPP-GV980Wpermanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-GV980W

Published as: A first endeavour in restoring denuded, post-bleached reefs in Tanzania | Technique: Coral Gardening - Transplantation Phase | Disturbance addressed: Bleaching | Genera: Acropora, Pocillopora, Porites, Millepora | Method: 6912 and 7110 corals were transplanted onto reefs denuded from bleaching. In each site, 12 plots (36 m2 each) were set up, of which three were transplanted with a mix of three Acropora spp, three with a mix of six scleractinian species, and six served as controls within non-transplanted areas. Monitoring recorded bleached colonies, detached transplants, survival rates, size, fish surveys, and recruitment of selected invertebrates. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 57.975% | Post-restoration monitoring: 12 months | Authors' conclusion: After one year no significant difference was documented in ecological volumes between treatments, but there were large differences between species in the first treatment. Fish density and coral recruitment increased significantly. | 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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