Abstract
Coral reef habitats provide valuable ecosystem services which have benefitted human society for millennia, but intense anthropogenic pressure, especially in the latter part of the last century, has resulted in widespread habitat degradation and loss of ecosystem services with severe environmental and societal consequences [...]
Highlights
New approaches to reef restoration built upon the reef gardening concept are proposed by Rinkevich [1]
From their review of the relationship between thermal stress and resilience, CarballoBolaños et al [2] contend that natural response mechanisms of corals may not be sufficient to contribute to the habitat’s ecological functioning if current greenhouse gas emission levels are not reduced
The community analysis of Malauka’a fringing reef at Kane’ohe Bay, Hawai’i, by Barnhill and Bahr [3] showed that corals acclimatized to a climate change-induced 0.96 ◦C increase over an 18-year period (2000 to 2018)—covering two major bleaching events—by retaining live coral cover and maintaining the two dominant species Porites compressa and Montipora capitata
Summary
New approaches to reef restoration built upon the reef gardening concept are proposed by Rinkevich [1]. From their review of the relationship between thermal stress and resilience, CarballoBolaños et al [2] contend that natural response mechanisms of corals may not be sufficient to contribute to the habitat’s ecological functioning if current greenhouse gas emission levels are not reduced. Corals mitigate thermal stress through various mechanisms including acclimatization, adaptation, and association with thermally tolerant endosymbionts.
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