Journal
BIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 17, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0149
Keywords
Scleractinia; coral reef; restoration; Caribbean; demography
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- National Science Foundation [OCE 17-56678, 20-19992, DEB 13-50146]
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Recruitment hotspots are locations where organisms are added to populations at high rates. In low-density coral populations, recruitment hotspots are valuable targets for conservation and sources of corals for restoration.
Recruitment hotspots are locations where organisms are added to populations at high rates. On tropical reefs where coral abundance has declined, recruitment hotspots are important because they have the potential to promote population recovery. Around St. John, US Virgin Islands, coral recruitment at five sites revealed a hotspot that has persistent for 14 years. Recruitment created a hotspot in density of juvenile corals that was 600 m southeast of the recruitment hotspot. Neither hotspot led to increased coral cover, thus revealing the stringency of the demographic bottleneck impeding progression of recruits to adult sizes and preventing population growth. Recruitment hotspots in low-density coral populations are valuable targets for conservation and sources of corals for restoration.
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