Coral reef restoration is not the same as forest restoration as its success is not always
guaranteed because of insufficient knowledge of coral biology. The technology of active …

Coral reefs are under extreme threat due to a number of stressors, but temperature
increases due to changing climate are the most severe. Rising ocean temperatures coupled …

Active coral restoration typically involves two interventions: crossing gametes to facilitate
sexual larval propagation; and fragmenting, growing, and outplanting adult colonies 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 …

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 …

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 …

Coral gardening plays an important role in the recovery of depleted populations of
threatened Acropora cervicornis in the Caribbean. Over the past decade, high survival …

Significant population declines in Acropora cervicornis and A. palmata began in the 1970s
and now exceed over 90%. The losses were caused by a combination of coral disease and …

As in the tropical Atlantic, Acropora populations in the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf
plummeted within two decades after having been ecosystem engineers on most wave …

In recent decades coral gardening has become increasingly popular to restore degraded
reef ecosystems. However, the growth and survivorship of nursery-reared outplanted corals …