Land‐use change in the coastal zone has led to worldwide degradation of marine coastal
ecosystems and a loss of the goods and services they provide. Restoration is the process of …

Coral reef restoration has gained recent popularity in response to the steady decline of
corals and the recognition that coral reefs may not be able to recover naturally without …

Slow growing, massive stony corals have often been overlooked in reef-restoration activities,
despite their resilience to climate change and contribution to reef framework. Techniques to …

Reef restoration activities have proliferated in response to the need to mitigate coral
declines and recover lost reef structure, function, and ecosystem services. Here, we describe …

Highlights•The degradation of coral reefs worldwide calls for novel restoration
methodologies.•The low-cost reef restoration (gardening tenet) is based on silviculture …

Fusion is an important life history strategy for clonal organisms to increase access to shared
resources, to compete for space, and to recover from disturbance. For reef building corals …

Coral reef restoration initiatives are burgeoning in response to the need for novel
management strategies to address dramatic global declines in coral cover. However, coral …

The relationship between the coral genotype and the environment is an important area of
research in degraded coral reef ecosystems. We used a reciprocal outplanting experiment …

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 …

Aquaculture of coral offers an alternative to wild harvest for the ornamental trade and shows
considerable promise for restoring reefs and preserving biodiversity. Here, we compare …