Can coral cover be restored in the absence of natural recruitment and reef recovery?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 142-150

  Gomez, Edgardo D ^a   Cabaitan, Patrick C ^a,b   Yap, Helen T ^a   Dizon, Romeo M ^a,c  

^a University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES BAGUIO   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Coral transplantation; Fragmentation; Lagoon environment; Porites cylindrica; Reef restoration

Indexed keywords

COASTAL LAGOON; CORAL; CORAL REEF; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION;

PHILIPPINES;

ANTHOZOA; PORITES CYLINDRICA;

EID: 84900356457     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12041     Document Type: Article

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