Transplantation — Sulawesi

OPP-NVHHR1permanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-NVHHR1

Published as: Examining the use of mass transplantation of brooding and spawning corals to support natural coral recruitment in Sulawesi / Indonesia | Technique: Transplantation | Genera: Acropora, Pocillopora, Isopora | Method: At each of three locations, three 10 x 10 m plots, set 30 m apart, were marked and cleared, and then assigned to one of 3 treatments: 1) control, 2) structures, 3) structures and transplants. Controls were left alone, and treatments received 50 concrete structures arranged in a chessboard pattern. Structures+Transplants plots received coral fragments fixed on bamboo trays, which were placed on the rubble between the concrete structures. Species composition varied between three locations. Coral … | Post-restoration monitoring: 24 months | Authors' conclusion: Coral transplantation did not appear to be a suitable tool for enhancing coral recruitment in the short term. | Lessons reported: Under the study conditions, providing stable substrate for settlement in the form of artificial reefs, together with improved management to reduce chronic stressors, may be more effective approaches to support coral recruitment. | 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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