Transplantation — Bolinao

OPP-DSSNJ5permanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-DSSNJ5

Published as: Community-based, low-tech method of restoring a lost thicket of Acropora corals. | Technique: Transplantation | Genera: Acropora | Method: Developing a cost-effective restoration method that is simple and low-tech enough to involve the local community. Fragments staked into sand, in tow treatments: high (6 fragments m-2) and low density (3 fragments m-2) coral. | Survival of transplants reported by the source: 78.5% | Post-restoration monitoring: 19 months | Authors' conclusion: Coral transplantation sites increased in coral cover from 0% to 24 and 54% in low and high density treatments respectively. Transplants had grownsignificnalty over 19 months. Fish abundance increased by 50% on high density treatments compared to low density and control plots. Macroinvertebrate abundance also increased in both transplantation plots compared to control plots. | Lessons reported: Pick a species that is known to survive in your restoration area. | 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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