Potential contribution of fish restocking to the recovery of deteriorated coral reefs: an alternative restoration method?

ABSTRACT: Counteracting the worldwide trend of coral reef degeneration is a major challenge for the scientific community. A crucial management approach to minimizing stress effects on healthy reefs and helping the recovery of disturbed reefs is reef protection. However, the current rapid decline of the world's reefs suggests that protection might be insufficient as a viable stand-alone management approach for some reefs. We thus suggest that the ecological restoration of coral reefs (CRR) should be considered as a valid component of coral reef management, in addition to protection, if the applied method is economically applicable and scalable. This theoretical study examines the potential applicability and outcomes of restocking grazers as a restoration tool for coral reef recovery-a tool that has n

SUBMITTER: Obolski U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4782690 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature