Effectiveness of coral relocation as a mitigation strategy in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawai'i.

ABSTRACT: Coral reef restoration and management techniques are in ever-increasing demand due to the global decline of coral reefs in the last several decades. Coral relocation has been established as an appropriate restoration technique in select cases, particularly where corals are scheduled for destruction. However, continued long-term monitoring of recovery of transplanted corals is seldom sustained. Removal of coral from a navigation channel and relocation to a similar nearby dredged site occurred in 2005. Coral recovery at the donor site and changes in fish populations at the receiving site were tracked periodically over the following decade. Coral regrowth at the donor site was rapid until a recent bleaching event reduced coral cover by more than half. The transplant of mature colonies increas

SUBMITTER: Rodgers KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5444363 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature