[Coral-List] Coral Reef Restoration in Florida

[Dennis Hubbard]

Hi all:

We've seen a number of these kinds of documentaries and have all seen
corals hung on clothes lines seemingly doing will. All the ones I've seen
have been in passing and, while local dives shops allude to it "working
great" I have never seen colonies out on the reef unless they settled there
on their own (lots of small to mid-sized *A. palmata*, for example).

Does anyone have references for papers that describe successful
"restoration" (i.e., corals growing out, reproducing and starting to create
even a small "reef community") using any of these methods?

Dennis

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Douglas Fenner <
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Corals in the popular news:
>
> An Atlantic Magazine video on YouTube: "A Breakthrough for coral reef
> restoration"
>
> http://youtu.be/qHKpcnn5Tws
>
>
> Cheers,  Doug
>
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Dennis Hubbard
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