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Gardening Corals for Reef Restoration By: Dr. Katie Lohr

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  • Gardening Corals for Reef Restoration

    By: Dr. Katie Lohr

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    Coral Reef Ecosystems • Habitat

    • Shoreline protection

    • Food and income

    • Recreation

    • Biomedical research

  • Corals

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    Acroporid corals

    • ~180 species of Acropora…

    • …but only 2 in the Caribbean!

    • Historically spatial dominants

    • Fast growth rate • Complexity

    Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis)

    Elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata)

  • biospherefoundation.org

    https://biospherefoundation.org

  • Discovery Bay, Jamaica 1975

    biospherefoundation.org

    https://biospherefoundation.org

  • biospherefoundation.org

    https://biospherefoundation.org

  • Discovery Bay, Jamaica 2013

    biospherefoundation.org

    https://biospherefoundation.org

  • Coral Restoration

    The Nature Conservancy

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    Using Natural Reproduction to Restore Reefs

    • Asexual reproduction: Fragmentation

  • “Coral gardening”

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    Using Natural Reproduction to Restore Reefs

    • Sexual reproduction: Spawning

    NOAA Fisheries

  • SECORE

    NIGHTSEA

    The Florida Aquarium

    The Nature Conservancy reefresilience.org

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    Current Topics in Coral Restoration

    • Cryopreservation and assisted gene flow

    • Coral Rescue

    • Restoration site selection

    • Mission: Iconic Reefs

  • Coral Cryopreservation

  • Assisted Gene Flow

    (Hagedorn et al. 2018)

  • Assisted Gene Flow

    (Hagedorn et al. 2018)

  • Assisted Gene Flow

    (Hagedorn et al. 2018)

  • Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD)

  • Coral Rescue

    Photo: Miami Herald

  • Coral Rescue

  • www.life.bio.sunysb.edu

    Restoration Site Selection

    www.wur. nl

  • September 2017

    t = 125

    Restoration Site Selection

    t = 0 t = 51 t = 248 t = 365 May June January May 2017 2017 2018 2018

  • Results

    Snapper Ledge (Fore reef)

  • Results

    t = 0 d t = 248 d

    t = 0 d t = 248 d

    Lohr et al., in press, Journal for Nature Conservation

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    Additional Dataset

    • CRFpre-andpost-Irma monitoringrecords(+6 sites)

    • Higherpost-hurricane survivalatCRFpatchvs. forereefsites(X2 = 159.61, p <0.00001)

    www.reefdivers.io

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    Discussion

    • 86%ofwaveenergy dissipatedbyreef crest(Ferrrarioetal. 2014)

    • Thicketshistorically facilitatedretention ofbrokenfragments (Highsmith1982)

    Carysfort Reef, Florida Keys 1975

    Carysfort Reef, Florida Keys 2014

    www.slideplayer.com

  • What’s next?

  • What’s next?

    Z. Ransom/Coral Restoration Foundation

  • Mission: Iconic Reefs

  • Mission: Iconic Reefs

  • Mission: Iconic Reefs

  • Mission: Iconic Reefs

  • Thank you!

  • Katie Lohr NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

    Email: [email protected]

    http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov

    mailto:[email protected]

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