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Effects of substratum on the growth and survivorship of Montipora capitata and Porites lobata transplants
Effects of substratum on the growth and survivorship of Montipora capitata and Porites lobata transplants
- Source :
- Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 486:134-139
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- Artificial transplantation of corals is a common method used to restore damaged or unhealthy coral assemblages. Though a number of studies have successfully transplanted coral fragments, there is no general consensus on the type of substratum to be used. The present study focused on the growth and survivorship of Montipora capitata (rice coral) and Porites lobata (lobe coral) fragments, which were transplanted onto different natural and synthetic substrata. No significant differences in coenosarc tissue growth or survivorship were observed between the species. Measurements after 184 days of growth, found transplant growth to be significantly higher on rhyolite breccia and amorphous coral skeletons than on black ʻAʻā lava. Nevertheless, no significant differences were observed between any of the other substrata. After 365 days of growth, survivorship was also observed to not be significantly different between substrata; with the only exception of being lower on glass substratum. It is hypothesized that success in a coral reef restoration project is largely determined by the actual coral fragmentation and transplantation process; as no distinct substratum affinity was observed for M. capitata and P. lobata transplants.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Fragmentation (reproduction)
Coenosarc
Montipora capitata
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
biology
Ecology
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Coral
fungi
technology, industry, and agriculture
Coral reef
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
Aquatic Science
biology.organism_classification
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Transplantation
Lobata
population characteristics
Porites lobata
geographic locations
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00220981
- Volume :
- 486
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........fdce70cbc9bb49727fbe9e8d95c22053
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2016.10.004