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DOI	10.1038/s42003-024-05831-4
	Shifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using Reef Carpets
	Horoszowski-Fridman, Yael B.; Izhaki, Ido; Katz, Sefano M.; Barkan, Ronen; Rinkevich, Baruch
发表日期	2024
EISSN	2399-3642
起始页码	7
结束页码	1
卷号	7 期号:1
英文摘要	To enhance the practice of farmed-coral transplantation, we conducted a trial of an approach called Reef Carpets (RC), which draws inspiration from the commercial turf-grass sod in land-based lawn gardening. Three 8.4m(2) RCs were established on a sandy seabed, containing preselected combinations of branching corals (Acropora cf. variabilis, Pocillopora damicornis, Stylophora pistillata) with nursery recruited dwellers, and were monitored for 17-months. Corals within RCs grew, supported coral recruitment and offered ecological habitats for coral-associated organisms. While the unstable sediment underneath the RCs increased corals' partial mortalities, corals managed to grow and propagate. The extent of fish and gastropods corallivory varied among the coral species and planulation of Stylophora transplants was significantly higher than same-size natal-colonies. The RCs provided conducive environments for fish/invertebrate communities (183 taxa), and each coral species influenced specifically species-diversity and reef-associated communities. Even dead corals played crucial roles as habitats for reef biota, sustaining >80% of the RCs diversity; hence, they should not be considered automatically as indicators of failure. RCs scaled-up reef restoration and generated, in short periods, new reefs in denuded zones with enhanced biodiversity. Yet, RCs employment on soft-beds could be improved by using more structured artificial frameworks, requiring further research efforts.
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Biology ; Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001155608600004
来源期刊	COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/296048
作者单位	Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research Institute; University of Haifa; Ruppin Academic Center
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Horoszowski-Fridman, Yael B.,Izhaki, Ido,Katz, Sefano M.,et al. Shifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using Reef Carpets[J],2024,7(1).
APA	Horoszowski-Fridman, Yael B.,Izhaki, Ido,Katz, Sefano M.,Barkan, Ronen,&Rinkevich, Baruch.(2024).Shifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using Reef Carpets.COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY,7(1).
MLA	Horoszowski-Fridman, Yael B.,et al."Shifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using Reef Carpets".COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY 7.1(2024).