Coral Gardening - Transplantation Phase — Florida Keys

OPP-SDB0KTpermanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-SDB0KT

Published as: Acropora cervicornis genet performance and symbiont identity throughout the restoration process | Technique: Coral Gardening - Transplantation Phase | Genera: Acropora | Method: 100 colonies of 5 different genets were outplanted in the Florida Keys. For each experimental colony, TLE was measured to the nearest mm at the beginning of the experiment and again at 93, 191 and 370 d post-outplant. Other measurements included the presence of disease, bleaching, breakage and partial or complete mortality. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 89% | Post-restoration monitoring: 12 months | Authors' conclusion: Survival to 1 yr post outplant was consistent with regional averages and did not differ significantly among A. cervicornis genets or between outplant sites. Outplant site and host genet had significant effects on coral growth. However, genet growth response did not depend on outplant site, providing no evidence for site-genet matching. Conversely, growth rates measured for each genet in the nursery were not predictive of performance following outplanting. Most colonies sampled were infected by one of five unique strains of S. ‘fitti’. Host-symbiont specificity varied among coral genets, but f… | Lessons reported: These results provide important information that could be applied to future population enhancement activities and generate additional questions regarding phenotypic plasticity and host-symbiont specificity in A. cervicornis throughout the restoration process. | 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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