Coral Gardening - Nursery Phase — Florida Reef tract

OPP-A055XVpermanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-A055XV

Published as: In Situ Coral Nurseries Serve as Genetic Repositories for Coral Reef Restoration after an Extreme Cold‐Water Event. | Technique: Coral Gardening - Nursery Phase | Genera: Acropora | Method: Experiment testing whether wild and nursery bred coral colonies have a different tolerance for cold water exposure. Line or block nurseries. | Post-restoration monitoring: 1 months | Authors' conclusion: Higher survival of coral fragments on nurseries due to less exposure to cold. Nurseries may serve as genetic repositories for wild populations. | Lessons reported: Strategic deployment of nurseries in areas with lower risk may safeguard genetic material and diversity | 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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