Coral Gardening — Culebra Island

OPP-C45DDMpermanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-C45DDM

Published as: Expansion of the Puerto Rico Low-Tech Coral Aquaculture and Coral Reef Rehabilitation Project. | Technique: Coral Gardening | Disturbance addressed: General degradation | Genera: Acropora | Method: Coral nurseries and outplanting to restore degraded coral reefs. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 73% | Post-restoration monitoring: 24 months | Authors' conclusion: Staghorn coral outplanting was also highly successful in restocking depleted populations. Further, outplanting also resulted in a significant enhancing of reef fish communities, particularly with juvenile individuals. Restored sites have shown a significant increase in fish species richness, abundance and biomass, in comparison to control sites. Also, non-MPA restored areas support more fish than those at control non-MPA sites. | Lessons reported: Differences in different nursery styles | 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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