Enhancing reef carbonate budgets through coral restoration DOI Creative Commons
Emily Esplandiu, John T. Morris, Ian C. Enochs

et al.

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(1)

Published: Nov. 11, 2024

Complex reef structure, built via calcium carbonate production by stony corals and other calcifying taxa, supports key ecosystem services. However, the decline in coral cover on reefs of Florida Reef Tract (US), caused ocean warming, disease, stressors, has led to erosion exceeding accretion, causing net loss framework. Active restoration, aimed at rapidly increasing cover, is essential for recovering structure function. Traditionally, restoration success focused survivorship growth transplanted corals. This first empirical study examine role high-density outplants endangered staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, restoring positive accretion reefs. Successful transplantation contributed production. Restored plots yielded a mean rate 3.06 kg CaCO

Language: Английский

Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation DOI
Clelia Mulà, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Mar Cabeza

et al.

Nature Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 8, 2025

Language: Английский

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Quantifying coral reef carbonate budgets: a comparison between ReefBudget and CoralNet DOI Creative Commons
Sivajyodee Sannassy Pilly,

Joseph E. Townsend,

Cut Aja Gita Alisa

et al.

Coral Reefs, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 17, 2025

Language: Английский

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Estimating coral reef carbonate budgets using Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry DOI
Hannah C. Barkley,

Ariel Halperin,

Damaris Torres‐Pulliza

et al.

Coral Reefs, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 18, 2025

Language: Английский

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Assessing how metal reef restoration structures shape the functional and taxonomic profile of coral-associated bacterial communities DOI Creative Commons
Paige Strudwick, David J. Suggett, Justin R. Seymour

et al.

Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: April 26, 2024

Significant threats to the long-term persistence of coral reefs have accelerated adoption propagation and out-planting approaches. However, how materials commonly used for structures could potentially affect coral-associated bacterial communities remains untested. Here, we examined impact metal on communities. Fragments species Acropora millepora were grown aluminium, sand/epoxy-coated steel (Reef Stars), uncoated (rebar) structures. After 6 months, functional taxonomic profiles propagated corals reef colonies characterised using amplicon (16S rRNA gene) shotgun metagenomic sequencing. No differences in phylogenetic structure or profile observed between colonies. specific genes pathways (e.g., lipid, nucleotide, carbohydrate metabolism) overrepresented different materials, taxa indicative materials. These findings indicate that may lead individual potential communities, but these contribute changed holobiont fitness presents a key question be addressed.

Language: Английский

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Bio-degradable ‘reef bags’ used for rubble stabilisation and their impact on rubble stability, binding, coral recruitment and fish occupancy DOI Creative Commons
Tania M. Kenyon,

C. M. Jones,

David Rissik

et al.

Ecological Engineering, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 210, P. 107433 - 107433

Published: Nov. 9, 2024

Language: Английский

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Cost‐efficiency and effectiveness of coral restoration pathways DOI Open Access
Sebastian Schmidt‐Roach,

Travis Knorr,

Cassandra Roch

et al.

Restoration Ecology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Nov. 14, 2024

Coral reefs play a crucial role in supporting over half billion human livelihoods through their contributions to fisheries, tourism, and coastal protection. In light of substantial global declines coral cover the deterioration reef habitats due climate change other human‐driven influences, urgency restoration has escalated help preserve vital ecosystem services. Comprehending economic costs associated with existing potential future approaches become time‐sensitive. The median cost is estimated be 400,000 USD/ha (at base year 2010). This estimate comes limitations its reliance on reported project various techniques. Here we look standardize expenses uniform costing efforts based time invested specific per‐unit for methods. We complement literature‐extracted values independent estimates real‐world operations. Using this approach, decipher comparative different nursery outplanting identify incorporated dependencies. To gain insights into impact labor expenditures, examine variations two regions. Overall, our data‐based approach identifies within most commonly practiced pathways, opportunities reduce operational costs, points toward priorities research development.

Language: Английский

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Early-stage outcomes and cost-effectiveness of implementing tourism-led coral propagation and outplanting in the Whitsundays (Great Barrier Reef) DOI Creative Commons
R. Scott, David J. Suggett,

C. Lynn Hayward

et al.

Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: Oct. 4, 2024

Implementation of coral restoration practices within reef management strategies is accelerating globally to support resilience and recovery. However, full costs underpinning project feasibility have historically been underreported yet are critical informing cost-benefit decision-making. Such knowledge especially lacking for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR), where a program led by tourism operators, Coral Nurture Program (CNP), was initiated in 2018 (northern GBR) continues scale. Here we describe the early outcomes implementing similar tourism-led asexual propagation outplanting new region, Whitsundays (central through CNP. Specifically, detail local operational environmental context CNP Whitsundays, implementation continuation activities, as well evaluate survivorship outplants across three sites nine months after establishment (August 2022 June 2023). Baseline benthic surveys revealed relatively low hard cover at (ranging from 3.22-8.67%), which significantly differed composition collection 16.67-38.06%), supporting strong motivation operators undertake activities. Mean fate-tracked plots between 267 days 23.33-47.58%), with declines largely driven detachment. Early-stage cost-effectiveness (costs relative outplant survival) associated activity varied widely US$33.04-178.55 per surviving (n = 4,425 outplants) depending on whether ‘in-kind’ costs, (outplanting only vs. total encompassing planning monitoring), site-based survivorship, or combination these factors, were considered. As projects continue be established globally, our results highlight need ongoing, long-term monitoring that can inform adaptive practice, fully transparent cost-reporting understand improve any given project. We further inherent context-dependency importance considering social-environmental contexts their cost-benefits economic rationale projects.

Language: Английский

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Enhancing reef carbonate budgets through coral restoration DOI Creative Commons
Emily Esplandiu, John T. Morris, Ian C. Enochs

et al.

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(1)

Published: Nov. 11, 2024

Complex reef structure, built via calcium carbonate production by stony corals and other calcifying taxa, supports key ecosystem services. However, the decline in coral cover on reefs of Florida Reef Tract (US), caused ocean warming, disease, stressors, has led to erosion exceeding accretion, causing net loss framework. Active restoration, aimed at rapidly increasing cover, is essential for recovering structure function. Traditionally, restoration success focused survivorship growth transplanted corals. This first empirical study examine role high-density outplants endangered staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, restoring positive accretion reefs. Successful transplantation contributed production. Restored plots yielded a mean rate 3.06 kg CaCO

Language: Английский

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0