Community-based, low-tech method of restoring a lost thicket of Acropora corals

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1866-1875

  Dela Cruz, Dexter W ^a,b   Villanueva, Ronald D ^a   Baria, Maria Vanessa B ^a,c  

^a University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acropora; Bolinao; Community based coral restoration; Low tech coral restoration; Philippines

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; BLEACHING; CORAL; COST ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; OVERFISHING; POLYP; REINTRODUCTION; SURVIVORSHIP; TRANSPLANTATION;

BOLINAO; ILOCOS; PANGASINAN; PHILIPPINES;

ACROPORA; ACROPORA INTERMEDIA; ACROPORA PULCHRA; ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 84925356535     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fst228     Document Type: Article

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