TY - JOUR
T1 - The right place at the right time:
T2 - Improving the odds of biogenic reef restoration
AU - Cook, Robert L.
AU - Sanderson, William G.
AU - Moore, Colin G.
AU - Harries, Dan B.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to the Esmée Fairburn Foundation for funding the project and Scottish Natural Heritage for providing the salinity and temperature loggers. We would also like to thank all the other members of the Heriot-Watt scientific dive team for helping with the dive work, over the two-year period. This project also received support from the MASTS pooling initiative (the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland) funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011 ) and Heriot-Watt University .
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PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - Habitat restoration is an international priority. With this demand there is a need for ecological knowledge to underpin restoration projects to ensure their success and cost-effective delivery. This study is the first temperate marine restoration project to examine the role seasonality and location may have on restoration projects. The study found that the settlement of Serpula vermicularis, a rare biogenic reef forming species of conservation importance, was up to three times higher on materials deployed during July than other months. The results also found similar differences in settlement between restoration sites. These results suggest that the timing and location of a restoration effort could affect its overall success in the medium to long term. For the restoration of marine biogenic species of conservation importance, targeted spatial and temporal pre-restoration experiments can greatly increase a project's chance of success as well as making large-scale restoration programs more cost efficient.
AB - Habitat restoration is an international priority. With this demand there is a need for ecological knowledge to underpin restoration projects to ensure their success and cost-effective delivery. This study is the first temperate marine restoration project to examine the role seasonality and location may have on restoration projects. The study found that the settlement of Serpula vermicularis, a rare biogenic reef forming species of conservation importance, was up to three times higher on materials deployed during July than other months. The results also found similar differences in settlement between restoration sites. These results suggest that the timing and location of a restoration effort could affect its overall success in the medium to long term. For the restoration of marine biogenic species of conservation importance, targeted spatial and temporal pre-restoration experiments can greatly increase a project's chance of success as well as making large-scale restoration programs more cost efficient.
KW - Biogenic reef
KW - Sea loch
KW - Serpula vermicularis
KW - Settlement
KW - UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099835349&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112022
DO - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112022
M3 - Article
C2 - 33513541
AN - SCOPUS:85099835349
SN - 0025-326X
VL - 164
JO - Marine Pollution Bulletin
JF - Marine Pollution Bulletin
M1 - 112022
ER -