Horizon scan of rapidly advancing coral restoration approaches for 21st century reef management

DJ Suggett, MJH van Oppen - Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Coral reef restoration activity is accelerating worldwide in efforts to offset the rate of reef
health declines. Many advances have already been made in restoration practices centred …

Rebuilding relationships on coral reefs: Coral bleaching knowledge‐sharing to aid adaptation planning for reef users: Bleaching emergence on reefs demonstrates …

TD Ainsworth, W Leggat, BR Silliman, CA Lantz… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Coral bleaching has impacted reefs worldwide and the predictions of near‐annual
bleaching from over two decades ago have now been realized. While technology currently …

An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration

DJ Suggett, M Edwards, D Cotton, M Hein, EF Camp - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Restoration of coral reef ecosystems as a management aid has accelerated globally in
response to ever-degrading reef health under climate change. As of 2021, more than US …

Pre-exposure to a variable temperature treatment improves the response of Acropora cervicornis to acute thermal stress

A DeMerlis, A Kirkland, ML Kaufman, AB Mayfield… - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
Given that global warming is the greatest threat to coral reefs, coral restoration projects have
expanded worldwide with the goal of replenishing habitats whose reef-building corals …

Perspectives on the use of coral reef restoration as a strategy to support and improve reef ecosystem services

MY Hein, T Vardi, EC Shaver, S Pioch… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In 2019, the United Nations Environment Assembly requested that the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) define …

Adoption of coral propagation and out-planting via the tourism industry to advance site stewardship on the northern Great Barrier Reef

L Howlett, EF Camp, J Edmondson… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coral propagation via nurseries and out-planting practices has increased worldwide in the
last decade to improve stakeholder-led stewardship aimed at retaining or rehabilitating local …

Coral reef restoration for coastal protection: Crafting technical and financial solutions

A Brathwaite, E Clua, R Roach, N Pascal - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coastal erosion, aggravated by coral reef mortality is a major issue for Small Island
Developing States. Traditionally gray infrastructure, financed by public budgets has been …

Active coral propagation outcomes on coral communities at high-value Great Barrier Reef tourism sites

L Howlett, EF Camp, J Edmondson, R Hosp… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tourism-led stewardship of Great Barrier Reef (GBR) sites has implemented upscaling of
coral propagation and out-planting practices. Incorporating ecological monitoring into …

Community-managed coral reef restoration in southern Kenya initiates reef recovery using various artificial reef designs

EG Knoester, JJ Rienstra, QJF Schürmann… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Monitoring of reef restoration efforts and artificial reefs (ARs) has typically been limited to
coral fragment survival, hampering evaluation of broader objectives such as ecosystem …

Contrasting coral community structures between natural and artificial substrates at Koh Tao, Gulf of Thailand

C Monchanin, R Mehrotra, E Haskin, CM Scott… - Marine Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Concrete cubic frames and decommissioned steel naval vessels have been deployed in
Thailand liberally to act as artificial substrates for coral restoration and marine recreation …