Applying coral breeding to reef restoration: best practices, knowledge gaps, and priority actions in a rapidly‐evolving field

AT Banaszak, KL Marhaver, MW Miller… - Restoration …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Reversing coral reef decline requires reducing environmental threats while actively restoring
reef ecological structure and function. A promising restoration approach uses coral breeding …

[HTML][HTML] The AutoSpawner system-Automated ex situ spawning and fertilisation of corals for reef restoration

A Severati, FM Nordborg, A Heyward… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The restoration of reefs damaged by global and local pressures remains constrained by the
scale of intervention currently feasible. Traditional methods for ex situ sexual propagation of …

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 …

Culturing for conservation: the need for timely investments in reef aquaculture

AD Ridlon, ED Grosholz, B Hancock… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Temperate oyster and tropical coral reefs are analogous systems that create habitat for
economically, ecologically, and culturally important species, and they provide countless …

Thermal tolerance traits of individual corals are widely distributed across the Great Barrier Reef

H Denis, LK Bay, VJL Mocellin… - … of the Royal …, 2024‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Adaptation of reef-building corals to global warming depends upon standing heritable
variation in tolerance traits upon which selection can act. Yet limited knowledge exists on …

Factores globales y locales que inciden sobre la degradación de los arrecifes coralinos: una revisión para la República Dominicana

A Croquer, S Zambrano, I Irazabal, RE Torres - 2022‏ - bvearmb.do
Este trabajo tiene por objetivo identificar los factores globales y locales que han impactado
la salud de los arrecifes dominicanos en las últimas décadas, así como puntualizar las …

Cryptic coral community composition across environmental gradients

GN Cabacungan, TN Waduwara Kankanamalage… - PloS one, 2025‏ - journals.plos.org
Cryptic genetic variation is increasingly being identified in numerous coral species, with
prior research indicating that different cryptic genetic lineages can exhibit varied responses …

Substantial advancement in aquaria rearing methods to assist recovery of an Endangered soft coral

MF Larkin, TR Davis, D Harasti… - Aquatic …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The temperate soft coral Dendronephthya australis has been listed as Endangered in NSW,
Australia, owing to its restricted geographic range, rapidly declining populations, and a …

A comparison of in situ and on‐vessel larval rearing for coral seeding

CJ Randall, VF Chamberland, C Giuliano… - Restoration …, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Coral sexual recruitment is critical to reef recovery yet often fails on degraded reefs. Coral
seeding is one approach to artificially increase the densities of coral settlers on reefs and …

Photogrammetry for coral structural complexity: What is beyond sight?

SD Guendulain-García, A Lopez-Beltran, AT Banaszak… - Coral Reefs, 2023‏ - Springer
Coral function largely depends on its structural complexity; for instance, corals with complex
shapes can potentially provide more and diverse shelter than those with less complex …