Coral Gardening — Montego Bay

OPP-G4DHF8permanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-G4DHF8

Published as: The decline and restoration of Acropora cervicornis in Montego Bay: Exploring the anthozoics and anthozoculture of A. cervicornis. | Technique: Coral Gardening | Disturbance addressed: General degradation | Genera: Acropora | Method: Different genets of A. cervicornis were cultured in nurseries and outplanted to reef sites of different depths and habitat characteristics. | Post-restoration monitoring: 11 months | Authors' conclusion: The amount of coral initially harvested from the wild reef for 65 fragments at 5 cm each, some 325 linear centimetres, with nursery growth yielded some 4277.5 centimetres for planting. After 11 months 1521.15cm remained, a net increase of 1196cm or 4.7-fold from the initial wild harvest. The strengths and weaknesses between the genets in the nurseries were not particularly prevalent on the planted reef, though trends occurred towards better performance in the stronger genets. | Lessons reported: The importance of adaptive management and site choice. Planting in areas of urchin and fish grazing provides greater success, but ultimately many of the deleterious issues (algal competition, sedimentation, disease and predation) protected for in the nursery are still an issue on the wild reef. Heritable resistances to stress does not extend to predation or disease. Restoration programmes must in… | 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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