Fish predation hinders the success of coral restoration efforts using fragmented massive corals.
Coral restoration
Fish predation
Massive corals
Microfragmentation
Montastraea cavernosa
Orbicella faveolata
Pseudodiploria clivosa
Pseudodiploria strigosa
Journal
PeerJ
ISSN: 2167-8359
Titre abrégé: PeerJ
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101603425
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
22
04
2020
accepted:
26
08
2020
entrez:
16
10
2020
pubmed:
17
10
2020
medline:
17
10
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
As coral reefs continue to decline globally, coral restoration practitioners have explored various approaches to return coral cover and diversity to decimated reefs. While branching coral species have long been the focus of restoration efforts, the recent development of the microfragmentation coral propagation technique has made it possible to incorporate massive coral species into restoration efforts. Microfragmentation (i.e., the process of cutting large donor colonies into small fragments that grow fast) has yielded promising early results. Still, best practices for outplanting fragmented corals of massive morphologies are continuing to be developed and modified to maximize survivorship. Here, we compared outplant success among four species of massive corals (
Identifiants
pubmed: 33062430
doi: 10.7717/peerj.9978
pii: 9978
pmc: PMC7534677
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e9978Informations de copyright
©2020 Koval et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare there are no competing interests.
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