Coral Gardening - Transplantation Phase — Laughing Bird Caye NP

OPP-4WRPC6permanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-4WRPC6

Published as: Measuring success for Caribbean acroporid restoration: key results from ten years of work in southern Belize. | Technique: Coral Gardening - Transplantation Phase | Genera: Acropora | Method: Coral fragments were out planted with a mix of genotypes and species at each location. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 94% | Post-restoration monitoring: 114 months | Authors' conclusion: Individual tracking of survival on a small subset revealed high survival. A. palmata transplanted from one reef to another showed 89% survival, while nursery grown A. palmata showed 99% survival. Photo tracking of the much larger number of transplanted corals revealed increases in coral cover ranging from 4.7 -23.4% over a single year. All three species spawned a year after outplanting. | Lessons reported: The outplant sites are located in a national park, where guides accompany each diver/snorkeler. These guides are trained in the removal of coral predators, and may therefore have helped the transplants survive unusually high proportions. | 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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