[Coral-List] Coral reef restoration

John Ware jware at erols.com
Thu Feb 2 13:10:43 EST 2017


Dear List,

Back in ~mid January, I sent out a request asking the list for 
references to papers that provided an evaluation or critique of the 
process of reef restoration, coral transplants, "population enhancement" 
(my personal favorite), etc.

Of the 68 papers in my file on this topic, only one is the least bit 
critical:

Bayraktarov et al, Ecol Appl 26(4):1055-1074 (I believe this is open 
access).

Elisa et al. concentrate on financial aspects and note that few papers 
describe costs in sufficient detail.  But they also mention that there 
is almost certainly a publication bias towards success.

It seems to me that there should be somewhere a critical review 
mentioning, for example, the relevance of scale in terms of global reef 
size and climate change.

But it does not appear that anyone has done the critical review that I 
expected to find (in a respectable journal).

Did I miss something??
John Ware

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