Coral Gardening - Transplantation Phase — Cousin Island Special Reserve

OPP-R88QK7permanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-R88QK7

Published as: Coral transplantation effects on fish and benthic community structure at a naturally damaged coral reef | Technique: Coral Gardening - Transplantation Phase | Disturbance addressed: Bleaching | Genera: Acropora, Pocillopora | Method: The project aimed to restore the structural complexity of an 1998-El Nino damaged coral reef with bleaching-resistant species resembling the natural coral community of the Seychelles’ inner granitic islands. The experimental design included a control healthy (H) site, a control degraded (D) and the transplanted site (T). The H site was included to quantify differences in reef fish and benthic community structures between D and T sites and how they compare to a reference healthy coral reef. | Post-restoration monitoring: 36 months | Authors' conclusion: The H site was included to quantify differences in reef fish and benthic community structures between D and T sites and how they compare to a reference healthy coral reef. Preliminary data analysis revealed that coral cover, coral and fish diversity and abundance were highest at H site and lowest at D site. The T site values were located between the H site and the D site. | Lessons reported: Not reported in the abstract | 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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