{"id":33707,"date":"2018-10-30T14:05:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33707"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:35:24","slug":"coral-transplant-raises-barrier-reef-survival-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/coral-transplant-raises-barrier-reef-survival-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral transplant raises Barrier Reef survival hopes\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/coral-transplant-raises-barrier-reef-survival-hopes\/article20947126.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coral transplant raises Barrier Reef survival hopes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an Australian project, Coral bred in one part of the Great Barrier Reef was successfully transplanted into another area, hoping they could restore damaged ecosystems around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The trial<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a trial at the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reef\u2019s Heron Island off Australia\u2019s east coast<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the researchers <\/span><b>collected large amount of coral spawn and eggs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> late last year, grew them into larvae and then transplanted them into areas of damaged reef.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When they returned eight months later, they found <\/span><b>juvenile coral<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that had survived and grown, aided by underwater mesh tanks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Global significance<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The success of the research not only applies to the Great Barrier Reef but has potential global significance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results are very promising and the work shows that adding higher densities of coral larvae leads to higher numbers of successful coral recruits.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Contrasting approach<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It showcases that one can start to restore and repair damaged coral populations where the natural supply of coral larvae has been compromised.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the larval-restoration approach contrasts with the current \u201ccoral gardening\u201d method of breaking up healthy coral and sticking healthy branches on reefs, scientists hope that they will regrow coral in nurseries before transplantation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same approach was earlier successfully trialled in the Philippines in an area of reef highly degraded by blast fishing, which helped reefs recover on a larger scale.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great Barrier Reef is reeling from an unprecedented second-straight year of coral bleaching because of warming sea temperatures linked to climate change.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coral transplant raises Barrier Reef survival hopes\u00a0 Context In an Australian project, Coral bred in one part of the Great Barrier Reef was successfully transplanted into another area, hoping they could restore damaged ecosystems around the world. 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