Coral Gardening - Transplantation Phase — Eilat

OPP-HRHWEKpermanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-HRHWEK

Published as: Engineering of coral reef larval supply through transplantation of nursery-farmed gravid colonies | Technique: Coral Gardening - Transplantation Phase | Disturbance addressed: General degradation | Genera: Stylophora | Method: Nursery-farmed colonies of Stylophora pistillata were transplanted in three different years (November 2005, May 2007, and September 2008; T1-T3, respectively). Planula larvae were collected in situ from transplants and naturally growing, healthy colonies during the peaks of three reproductive seasons (2007, 2009 and 2010), along N4-year post transplantation. | Post-restoration monitoring: 48 months | Authors' conclusion: A higher percentage of nursery-farmed colonies (80–100% during the three reproductive seasons) released planula larvae than naturally-grown colonies (0%, 32% and 47% at 2007, 2009 and 2010 censuses). Gravid transplants also shed more planulae per colony, yielding significantly augmented numbers of total planulae over naturally developed S. pistillata colonies. | Lessons reported: Transplantation of farmed gravid corals, prior to their reproductive season, might surface as an efficient applied tool for reseeding degraded reefs. | 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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