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Coastal business perception of coral value and payment for coral restoration [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Coral reefs provide important economic benefits to coastal businesses, supporting recreation and tourism and protecting property from storms. Yet, these benefits are at risk worldwide as corals decline rapidly, and investment in restoration is lacking ...
Rachel R. Carlson, Joanna Klitzke, Gretchen C. Daily, Larry B. Crowder, Borja G. Reguero, Gregory P. Asner   +5 more
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Coral restoration and adaptation in Australia: The first five years [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2022
While coral reefs in Australia have historically been a showcase of conventional management informed by research, recent declines in coral cover have triggered efforts to innovate and integrate intervention and restoration actions into management ...
Ian M. McLeod, Margaux Y. Hein, Russ Babcock, Line Bay, David G. Bourne, Nathan Cook, Christopher Doropoulos, Mark Gibbs, Peter Harrison, Stewart Lockie, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Neil Mattocks, Cathie A. Page, Carly J. Randall, Adam Smith, Hillary A. Smith, David J. Suggett, Bruce Taylor, Karen J. Vella, David Wachenfeld, Lisa Boström-Einarsson   +20 more
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Coral Restoration Effectiveness: Multiregional Snapshots of the Long-Term Responses of Coral Assemblages to Restoration [PDF]

Diversity, 2020
Coral restoration is rapidly becoming a mainstream strategic reef management response to address dramatic declines in coral cover worldwide. Restoration success can be defined as enhanced reef functions leading to improved ecosystem services, with ...
Margaux Y. Hein, Roger Beeden, Alastair Birtles, Naomi M. Gardiner, Thomas Le Berre, Jessica Levy, Nadine Marshall, Chad M. Scott, Lisa Terry, Bette L. Willis   +9 more
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Assessing acute thermal assays as a rapid screening tool for coral restoration [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Escalating environmental threats to coral reefs coincides with global advancements in coral restoration programs. To improve long-term efficacy, practitioners must consider incorporating genotypes resilient to ocean warming and disease while maintaining ...
C. N. Klepac, C. G. Petrik, E. Karabelas, J. Owens, E. R. Hall, E. M. Muller   +5 more
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Coral restoration - A systematic review of current methods, successes, failures and future directions. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2020
Coral reef ecosystems have suffered an unprecedented loss of habitat-forming hard corals in recent decades. While marine conservation has historically focused on passive habitat protection, demand for and interest in active restoration has been growing ...
Lisa Boström-Einarsson, Russell C Babcock, Elisa Bayraktarov, Daniela Ceccarelli, Nathan Cook, Sebastian C A Ferse, Boze Hancock, Peter Harrison, Margaux Hein, Elizabeth Shaver, Adam Smith, David Suggett, Phoebe J Stewart-Sinclair, Tali Vardi, Ian M McLeod   +14 more
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Enhancing reef carbonate budgets through coral restoration. [PDF]

Sci Rep
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 the Florida Reef Tract (US), caused by ocean warming, disease, and ...
Esplandiu E, Morris J, Enochs I, Besemer N, Lirman D.   +4 more
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Active Coral Restoration to Preserve the Biodiversity of a Highly Impacted Reef in the Maldives [PDF]

Diversity, 2023
Maldivian coral reefs have been experiencing significant degradation due to a combination of global climate change and local anthropogenic pressures. To enforce the conservation of coral reefs worldwide, coral restoration is becoming a popular tool to ...
Irene Pancrazi, Kayla Feairheller, Hassan Ahmed, Carolina di Napoli, Monica Montefalcone   +4 more
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Restoration as a meaningful aid to ecological recovery of coral reefs

npj Ocean Sustainability
Restoration supports the recovery of ecological attributes such as cover, complexity, and diversity to slow the areal decline of natural ecosystems. Restoration activity is intensifying worldwide to combat persistent stressors that are driving global ...
David J. Suggett, James Guest, Emma F. Camp, Alasdair Edwards, Liz Goergen, Margaux Hein, Adriana Humanes, Jessica S. Levy, Phanor H. Montoya-Maya, David J. Smith, Tali Vardi, R. Scott Winters, Tom Moore   +12 more
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Carbonate budgets induced by coral restoration of a Great Barrier Reef site following cyclone damage [PDF]

Frontiers in Marine Science
Coral carbonate production is fundamental to reef accretion and, consequently, the preservation of essential reef ecosystem services, such as wave attenuation and sustained reef biodiversity.
C. Isabel Nuñez Lendo, David J. Suggett, David J. Suggett, Chloë Boote, Alicia McArdle, Freda Nicholson, Eric E. Fisher, David Smith, Emma F. Camp   +8 more
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Creation of complex reef structures through coral restoration does not affect associated fish populations on a remote, well-protected, Caribbean reef [PDF]

PeerJ
Coral reef ecosystems are facing severe degradation due to anthropogenic activities at both local and global scales. In response, extensive restoration efforts are underway, aiming to bolster coral cover and enhance reef fish communities to foster ...
Jack V. Johnson, John F. Bruno, Lucas Le Gall, Matthew Louis Doherty, Alex Chequer, Gretchen Goodbody Gringley   +5 more
doaj   +4 more sources