Interactions between coral restoration and fish assemblages: implications for reef management

MJ Seraphim, KA Sloman, ME Alexander… - Journal of Fish …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Corals create complex reef structures that provide both habitat and food for many fish
species. Because of numerous natural and anthropogenic threats, many coral reefs are …

An Indo-Pacific coral spawning database

AH Baird, JR Guest, AJ Edwards, AG Bauman… - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
The discovery of multi-species synchronous spawning of scleractinian corals on the Great
Barrier Reef in the 1980s stimulated an extraordinary effort to document spawning times in …

Cost‐efficiency and effectiveness of coral restoration pathways

S Schmidt‐Roach, T Knorr, C Roch, R Klaus… - Restoration …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs play a crucial role in supporting over half a billion human livelihoods through
their contributions to fisheries, tourism, and coastal protection. In light of substantial global …

Enhancing coral recruitment through assisted mass settlement of cultured coral larvae

DW Dela Cruz, PL Harrison - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The escalating rate at which coral communities are declining globally requires urgent
intervention and new approaches to reef management to reduce and halt further coral loss …

Maximizing genetic diversity in coral restoration projects

IB Baums, VF Chamberland, NS Locatelli… - Coral Reef Conservation …, 2022 - Springer
As natural coral populations decline, thousands of outplanted corals are poised to dominate
reefs in the hardest-hit areas, such as the Florida Keys. Genetic management plans are …

Live slow, die old: larval propagation of slow-growing, stress-tolerant corals for reef restoration

J Guest, MV Baria-Rodriguez, TC Toh, D dela Cruz… - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
Efforts to restore coral reefs usually involve transplanting asexually propagated fast-growing
corals. However, this approach can lead to outplanted populations with low genotypic …

Larval thermal conditioning does not improve post-settlement thermal tolerance in the dominant reef-building coral, Montipora capitata

G Alexander, JR Hancock, AS Huffmyer, SB Matsuda - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
Climate change-induced ocean warming has reshaped reef ecosystems as coral bleaching
events continue to lead to mass coral die-offs globally. These thermal anomalies also …

[HTML][HTML] Reef location and season, but not recruitment substrate contour and composition, affect coral recruitment patterns

DW dela Cruz, PL Harrison - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Most studies have quantified coral recruitment using recruitment tiles temporarily deployed
on reefs. However, the wide range of tile types used in different studies potentially influences …

Ontogenetic shifts in Symbiodiniaceae assemblages within cultured Acropora humilis across hatchery rearing and post-transplantation phases

S Jandang, V Viyakarn, Y Yoshioka… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Coral reefs have been declining worldwide due to multiple threats. Various approaches for
coral restoration have been employed to increase coral populations. Sexual propagation is …

Survival and sexual maturity of sexually propagated Acropora verweyi corals 4 years after outplantation

CA Ligson, PC Cabaitan - Restoration Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Most coral reef restoration efforts are carried out over 1–2 years, and few have assessed
long‐term (over 3 years) outcomes. Although studies of outplantation of sexually propagated …