Strategies for Gardening Denuded Coral Reef Areas: The Applicability of Using Different Types of Coral Material for Reef Restoration

By N. Epstein, R. Bak, B. Rinkevich. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography

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Coral propagation: a review of techniques for ornamental trade and reef restoration (2017, background): “…can be collected from small donor colonies (~6.3 cm diameter or more), but pruning more than 10% of donor colony branches may increase stress and subsequent risk of whole colony mortality, while simultaneously reducing fecundity, as observed in Stylophora pistillata (see Epstein et al. 2001).”
Regional restoration benchmarks for Acropora cervicornis (2017, background): “To populate each local nursery, partners collected only small branches or branch tips equaling\10% of the total colony size (Epstein et al. 2001) from healthy, wild (donor) A. cervicornis colonies using hand cutters, or collected corals of opportunity (i.e., corals found detached from the reef).”
A Review of Reef Restoration and Coral Propagation Using the Threatened Genus Acropora in the Caribbean and Western Atlantic (2012, background): “Nursery-grown colonies produce a sustainable stock of corals which can then be transplanted to degraded reefs (Rinkevich 1995, 2005, Epstein et al. 2001, 2003, Soong and Chen 2003).”
Fixed and suspended coral nurseries in the Philippines: Establishing the first step in the “gardening concept” of reef restoration (2008, methodology): “All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2008.01.024 1995, 2005a; Chadwick-Furman, 1996; Hodgson, 1999; Epstein et al., 2001; Wilkinson, 2002; Manning et al., 2006; Shafir et al., 2006a).”
Closing the circle: is it feasible to rehabilitate reefs with sexually propagated corals? (2013, background): “On the other hand, sexual methods are considerably more labour intensive; may require land based hatchery facilities and expertise in larval rearing techniques; and are likely to be more expensive than asexual techniques (Epstein et al. 2001).”
Steps in the construction of underwater coral nursery, an essential component in reef restoration acts (2006, background): “However, harvesting corals for transplantation usually abuse and inflict trauma to the donor reefs while survival and growth of the transplants are left to the mercy of conditions within the damaged reef site (Edwards and Clark 1998; Epstein and Rinkevich 2001 ).”
Propagation of the threatened staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis: methods to minimize the impacts of fragment collection and maximize production (2010, background): “…effects on parent-colony growth or other vital functions like reproduction, which are commonly influenced by size and disturbance history in clonal organisms (e.g., Hughes and Connell 1987; Smith and Hughes 1999; Beiring and Lasker 2000; Lirman 2000b; Epstein et al. 2001; Okubo et al. 2005).”
Degradation and restoration of coral reefs: Experience in Okinawa, Japan (2011, background): “A number of studies have been carried out to discover the best way to increase survival and growth rates of transplanted corals (cf. Epstein et al. 2001; Soong & Chen 2003; Okubo 2004; Rinkevich 2005; Okubo et al. 2007).”
Coral restoration research and technical developments: what we have learned so far (2019, background): “Epstein et al. (2001) showed in a farm culture of Stylophora pistillata (Esper, 1797) that pruning more than 10% of a donor colony increased the mortality and the surviving colonies displayed a reduced reproductive activity.”