Condition of restored Acropora palmata fragments off Mona Island, Puerto Rico, 2 years after the Fortuna Reefer ship grounding

By A. Bruckner, R. Bruckner. Coral reefs, 2001

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Advances in Breeding and Rearing Marine Ornamentals (2011, background): “…palmata) are commonly cultured in captivity through fragmentation to restore natural populations as well as to eliminate the need for public aquariums to harvest wild specimens to exhibit in their reef displays (Bruckner and Bruckner 2001; Delbeek 2001; Precht 2006; Raigoza Figueras et al. 2009).”
Regional restoration benchmarks for Acropora cervicornis (2017, background): “…(Epstein et al. 2001; Shafir et al. 2006; Lirman et al. 2010), or the success of restoration projects over the course of more than a few months (Bruckner and Bruckner 2001; Griffin et al. 2015) especially in the Caribbean where coral gardening activities generally began more recently than in…”
Impact of coral predators on tropical reefs (2008, background): “S. planifrons is known to cause ridge mortality on Diploria spp. corals (Proppe 1998), as well as partial mortality in Acropid coral fragments (Bruckner & Bruckner 2001).”
A Review of Reef Restoration and Coral Propagation Using the Threatened Genus Acropora in the Caribbean and Western Atlantic (2012, background): “…corals and assist in their recovery, an increasing number of practitioners are conducting restoration and propagation activities with this genus (Bruckner and Bruckner 2001, Quinn et al. 2005, Quinn and Kojis 2006, Herlan and Lirman 2008) and extensive, albeit largely unpublished or…”