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The potential for coral reef restoration to mitigate coastal flooding as sea levels rise [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2023
The ability of reefs to protect coastlines from storm-driven flooding hinges on their capacity to keep pace with sea-level rise. Here, we show how and whether coral restoration could achieve the often-cited goal of reversing the impacts of coral-reef ...
Lauren T. Toth, Curt D. Storlazzi, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Ellen Quataert, Johan Reyns, Robert McCall, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Zandy Hillis-Starr, Nathaniel Hanna Holloway, Kristen A. Ewen, Clayton G. Pollock, Tessa Code, Richard B. Aronson   +12 more
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Active Biopaste for Coral Reef Restoration. [PDF]

Adv Mater
AbstractPreserving coral reefs is crucial for safeguarding marine biodiversity, global ecosystems, and coastal communities. Coral restoration focuses on farming and transplanting corals back onto reefs. However, traditional attachment methods, such as petroleum‐based epoxy, pose environmental risks or provide inefficient affixation.
Corigliano G, Isa V, Annese VF, Rinaldi C, Summa M, Bertorelli R, Galli P, Lavorano S, Caironi M, Contardi M, Cataldi P, Montano S, Athanassiou A.   +12 more
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Coral reef restoration efforts in Latin American countries and territories. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2020
Coral reefs worldwide are degrading due to climate change, overfishing, pollution, coastal development, coral bleaching, and diseases. In areas where the natural recovery of an ecosystem is negligible or protection through management interventions ...
Elisa Bayraktarov, Anastazia T Banaszak, Phanor Montoya Maya, Joanie Kleypas, Jesús E Arias-González, Macarena Blanco, Johanna Calle-Triviño, Nufar Charuvi, Camilo Cortés-Useche, Victor Galván, Miguel A García Salgado, Mariana Gnecco, Sergio D Guendulain-García, Edwin A Hernández Delgado, José A Marín Moraga, María Fernanda Maya, Sandra Mendoza Quiroz, Samantha Mercado Cervantes, Megan Morikawa, Gabriela Nava, Valeria Pizarro, Rita I Sellares-Blasco, Samuel E Suleimán Ramos, Tatiana Villalobos Cubero, María F Villalpando, Sarah Frías-Torres   +25 more
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Scaling up the global reef restoration activity: Avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2021
The health and condition of the world's reefs are in steep decline. This has triggered the development of fledgling micro-scale coral reef restoration projects along many reef coastlines.
Mark T Gibbs, Bridget L Gibbs, Maxine Newlands, Jordan Ivey   +3 more
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Motivations, success, and cost of coral reef restoration [PDF]

Restoration Ecology, 2019
Coral reef restoration is an increasingly important part of tropical marine conservation. Information about what motivates coral reef restoration as well as its success and cost is not well understood but is needed to inform restoration decisions. We systematically review and synthesize data from mostly scientific studies published in peer‐reviewed and
Hugh Possingham, Kerrie A Wilson, Elisa Bayraktarov   +2 more
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Coral restoration alters reef soundscapes but machine learning and manual analyses suggest different recovery rates. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Coral restoration is recognised as a critical tool to mitigate pantropical degradation of reef ecosystems. Robust monitoring of restoration progress is crucial for projects to evaluate their success, improve practice, and share knowledge.
Emily Maria Croasdale, Luca Saponari, Charlotte Dale, Nirmal Shah, Ben Williams, Timothy A C Lamont   +5 more
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Tandem reef restoration using corals and sea urchins: Building complex habitat for herbivores. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Amidst the decline of coral reef ecosystems, restoration practitioners are expanding their focus to incorporate key reef community components, such as grazers, to improve site conditions and the long-term survivorship of restored corals.
Catherine Lachnit, Emily Esplandiu, Joshua Patterson, Diego Lirman   +3 more
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Reef design influences habitat provision on a restored oyster reef

Frontiers in Marine Science
Habitat restoration efforts are often limited by cost, making it important that available funds are used efficiently and effectively to achieve desired restoration goals.
Jennifer Beseres Pollack, Monisha Sugla, Natasha J. Breaux, Stacy N. Trackenberg, Terence A. Palmer   +4 more
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The Active Reef Restoration Toolbox is a Vehicle for Coral Resilience and Adaptation in a Changing World

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019
The accelerating marks of climate change on coral-reef ecosystems, combined with the recognition that traditional management measures are not efficient enough to cope with climate change tempo and human footprints, have raised a need for new approaches ...
Baruch Rinkevich, Rinkevich Baruch
exaly   +3 more sources

Geographically driven differences in microbiomes of Acropora cervicornis originating from different regions of Florida’s Coral Reef [PDF]

PeerJ, 2022
Effective coral restoration must include comprehensive investigations of the targeted coral community that consider all aspects of the coral holobiont—the coral host, symbiotic algae, and microbiome.
Sara D. Williams, J. Grace Klinges, Samara Zinman, Abigail S. Clark, Erich Bartels, Marina Villoch Diaz Maurino, Erinn M. Muller   +6 more
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