Coral Reef Restoration (Bolinao, Philippines) in the Face of Frequent Natural Catastrophes

Shaish, Lee; Levy, Gideon; Katzir, Gadi; Rinkevich, Baruch

doi:10.1111/j.1526-100x.2009.00647.x

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“…In fact, a recent biological study in the reef identified the abundance near Malilnep channel of blue coral (Heliopora coerulea), a species thought to be tolerant of low salinity and nutrient-rich conditions. Moreover, corals transplanted and nursed as part of reef restoration studies died in certain areas and the researchers partly blamed freshwater seepage [Shaish et al, 2010]; these areas are in fact those with higher resistivity and therefore prone to submarine groundwater discharge. Additionally, nutrient analysis of waters from the reef indicates high nitrate concentrations in the vicinity of the Malilnep channel.…”

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Linking regional sources and pathways for submarine groundwater discharge at a reef by electrical resistivity tomography, ²²²Rn, and salinity measurements

Cardenas

Zamora

Siringan

et al. 2010

Geophysical Research Letters

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Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is an important component of the hydrologic cycle connecting terrestrial to marine environments. SGD in fringing reefs and its consequences on biogeochemistry and ecology remain mostly unexplored. The 222Rn activity and salinity of seawater indicate a substantial groundwater contribution throughout most of the 20 km2 studied tropical reef in Pangasinan, Philippines. Over 30 km of electrical resistivity profiles with a penetration depth of 12.5 m shows widespread zones within the reef that are much more resistive than porous reef rocks or sediment saturated with typical seawater. Some discrete resistive areas are located close to where seawater has 222Rn peaks and where geologic lineaments are likely located suggesting that these are preferential pathways for fresher groundwater discharging to the reef. SGD at the site could be a major ecological factor connecting the reef to the subsurface environment which in turn may lead to connections to land.

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Linking regional sources and pathways for submarine groundwater discharge at a reef by electrical resistivity tomography, ²²²Rn, and salinity measurements

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Zamora

Siringan

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Geophysical Research Letters

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“…The specifically developed tool-box applications of the "gardening" concept have already shown ( [23,27,[31][32][33][34] and unpublished) that active reef restoration may reshape coral reef communities (and associated biota) in such a way that novel reef ecosystems, with novel functionalities that did not exist before, may be developed. Clearly, the function of such novel reef ecosystems could deviate markedly (through elements such as species compositions, biodiversity, engineering capacities, goods and services) from that of existing reef systems; they may still provide the same valuable goods and services to society, or perhaps offer different ones.…”

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“…Global climate changes are expected to impose ever increasing challenges to traditional coral reef maintenance measures, and to novel approaches such as the "gardening" tenet as well [31]. Many aspects of the gardening approach and of active reef restoration are still in their nascent stages [23].…”

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“…A unique example is a study performed in Bolinao, the Philippines, on a reef restoration operation that used nursery farmed coral colonies and coral transplants over the course of two years (Table 1; [31]). During this relatively short period, two sets of nursery farmed coral colonies (>6800 and >5400 corals colonies from 7 and 8 coral species, respectively) and a single transplantation event (ca.…”

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Climate Change and Active Reef Restoration—Ways of Constructing the “Reefs of Tomorrow”

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2015

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Abstract:The continuous degradation of coral reef ecosystems on a global level, the disheartening expectations of a gloomy future for reefs' statuses, the failure of traditional conservation acts to revive most of the degrading reefs and the understanding that it is unlikely that future reefs will return to historic conditions, all call for novel management approaches. Among the most effective approaches is the "gardening" concept of active reef restoration, centered, as in silviculture, on a two-step restoration process (nursery and transplantation). In the almost two decades that passed from its first presentation, the "gardening" tenet was tested in a number of coral reefs worldwide, revealing that it may reshape coral reef communities (and associated biota) in such a way that novel reef ecosystems with novel functionalities that did not exist before are developed. Using the "gardening" approach as a climate change mediator, four novel ecosystem engineering management approaches are raised and discussed in this article. These include the take-home lessons approach, which considers the critical evaluation of reef restoration outcomes; the genetics approach; the use of coral nurseries as repositories for coral and reef species; and an approach that uses novel environmental engineering tactics. Two of these approaches (take-home lessons and using coral nurseries as repositories for reef dwelling organisms) already consider the uncertainty and the gaps in our knowledge, and they are further supported by the genetic approach and by the use of novel environmental engineering tactics as augmenting auxiliaries. Employing these approaches (combined with other novel tactics) will enhance the ability of coral reef organisms to adaptably respond to climate change.

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“…Although there exist studies, e.g. [40] and [53], that have investigated the changes in underwater environment after such events happen, most of them have focused on long-term monitoring and they are not able to explore the effects right after the typhoon. This is mainly due to the impracticability for human operators to monitor the area because of, for instance, the floods coming down from neighboring mountains.…”

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Understanding fish behavior during typhoon events in real-life underwater environments

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Palazzo

Boom

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Multimed Tools Appl

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The study of fish populations in their own natural environment is a task that has usually been tackled in invasive ways which inevitably influenced the behavior of the fish under observation. Recent projects involving the installation of permanent underwater cameras (e.g. the Fish4Knowledge (F4K) project, for the observation of Taiwan's coral reefs) allow to gather huge quantities of video data, without interfering with the observed environment, but at the same time require the development of automatic processing tools, since manual analysis would be impractical for such amounts of videos. Event detection is one of the most interesting This research was funded by European Commission FP7 grant 257024, for the Fish4Knowledge project (www.fish4knowledge.eu). Appl (2014) 70:199-236 aspects from the biologists' point of view, since it allows the analysis of fish activity during particular events, such as typhoons. In order to achieve this goal, in this paper we present an automatic video analysis approach for fish behavior understanding during typhoon events. The first step of the proposed system, therefore, involves the detection of "typhoon" events and it is based on video texture analysis and on classification by means of Support Vector Machines (SVM). As part of our behavior understanding efforts, trajectory extraction and clustering have been performed to study the differences in behavior when disruptive events happen. The integration of event detection with fish behavior understanding surpasses the idea of simply detecting events by low-level features analysis, as it supports the full semantic comprehension of interesting events.

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Coral Reef Restoration (Bolinao, Philippines) in the Face of Frequent Natural Catastrophes

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References 48 publications

Linking regional sources and pathways for submarine groundwater discharge at a reef by electrical resistivity tomography, ²²²Rn, and salinity measurements

Linking regional sources and pathways for submarine groundwater discharge at a reef by electrical resistivity tomography, ²²²Rn, and salinity measurements

Climate Change and Active Reef Restoration—Ways of Constructing the “Reefs of Tomorrow”

Understanding fish behavior during typhoon events in real-life underwater environments

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Coral Reef Restoration (Bolinao, Philippines) in the Face of Frequent Natural Catastrophes

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Linking regional sources and pathways for submarine groundwater discharge at a reef by electrical resistivity tomography, 222Rn, and salinity measurements

Linking regional sources and pathways for submarine groundwater discharge at a reef by electrical resistivity tomography, 222Rn, and salinity measurements

Climate Change and Active Reef Restoration—Ways of Constructing the “Reefs of Tomorrow”

Understanding fish behavior during typhoon events in real-life underwater environments

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Linking regional sources and pathways for submarine groundwater discharge at a reef by electrical resistivity tomography, ²²²Rn, and salinity measurements

Linking regional sources and pathways for submarine groundwater discharge at a reef by electrical resistivity tomography, ²²²Rn, and salinity measurements