Coral Gardening - Nursery Phase — Veracruz

OPP-TRBXK3permanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-TRBXK3

Published as: in: Johnson et al 2011, Caribbean Acropora restoration guide: best practices for propagation and population enhancement CASE STUDY 4 | Technique: Coral Gardening - Nursery Phase | Disturbance addressed: Ship Grounding | Genera: Acropora | Method: PVC structures on substrate | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 85% | Post-restoration monitoring: 36 months | Authors' conclusion: Successful outplanting of 3600 corals | Lessons reported: Space colonies further apart (>2m) to avoid predation by snails and fireworms. Choose a site near natural algae predators (ie Diadema and Echinometra). Build modular, rather than bigger, to reduce size and weight of structures, and growing fragments. | 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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