Dedication to Wolf Hilbertz. Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration: An Introduction. Restoring Reefs to Grow Back Beaches and Protect Coasts from Erosion and Global Sea Level Rise. Reef Restoration Using Seawater Electrolysis in Jamaica. Electrically Stimulated Corals in Indonesia Reef Restoration Projects Show Greatly Accelerated Growth Rates. Biorock Reef Restoration in Gili Trawangan, North Lombok, Indonesia. Electrical Current Stimulates Coral Branching and Growth in Jakarta Bay. Electricity Protects Coral from Overgrowth by an Encrusting Sponge in Indonesia. Gorgonian Soft Corals Have Higher Growth and Survival in Electrical Fields. Suitability of Mineral Accretion as a Rehabilitation Method for Cold-Water Coral Reefs. Utilization of Low-Voltage Electricity to Stimulate Cultivation of Pearl Oysters Pinctada maxima (Jameson). Increased Oyster Growth and Survival Using Biorock Technology. Electrical Stimulation Increases Oyster Growth and Survival in Restoration Projects. Restoration of Seagrass Mats (Posidonia oceanica) with Electrical Stimulation. Electrical Fields Increase Salt Marsh Survival and Growth and Speed Restoration in Adverse Conditions. Fish Postlarval Capture and Culture for Restoring Fisheries. Mariculture Potential of Gracilaria Species [Rhodophyta] in Jamaican Nitrate-Enriched Back-Reef Habitats: Growth, Nutrient Uptake, and Elemental Composition. Sustainable Reef Design to Optimize Habitat Restoration. Marine Ecosystem Electrotherapy: Practice and Theory.
Thomas J. Goreau, Robert Kent Trench
"As this planet spins ever faster on a collision course with
humanity, Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration shines
positive light on a new direction for coral reef and shoreline
restoration. It is a welcome addition to the literature. The volume
takes us through 11 case studies first presented at the World
Conference on Ecological Restoration in Me´rida, Mexico, in August
2011. It reports on methods for enhancing shorelines and restoring
corals reefs, oyster beds, sea grass beds, and salt marshes. ...
This volume challenges the common mantra of coral reef conservation
that managing coral reefs is really managing people, not reefs.
Goreau and Trench take us into a world of technology that amplifies
biology and initiates ecological self-restoration using low voltage
electrical current through metal frames to enhance the skeletal
growth of reef corals and other calcifying organisms. ... The case
studies are impressive demonstrations suggesting that electrified
iron frames can be used to restore beaches, generate beautiful
reefs, and grow more oysters."
—Phillip Dustan, College of Charleston, South Carolina, in The
Quarterly Review of Biology, Volume 90"This excellent work deals
with ways mild electrical stimulation can enhance settlement and
growth and reduce the mortality of such marine organisms as corals,
oysters, and sponges as well as sea grasses and salt marshes in
temperate and tropical ecosystems. Each chapter is formatted like a
brief scientific manuscript, with an introduction and
materials/methods, results, discussion, references, and
acknowledgments sections. … In addition to the content the volume's
19 chapters provide, a companion CD contains all the photographs
and graphs from the book along with presentations from two
international ecosystem restoration conferences. Summing Up:
Recommended. Senior-level undergraduates, graduate students,
researchers/faculty, and professionals interested in ecosystem
restoration."
—A. K. Volety, Florida Gulf Coast University, in CHOICE
Magazine"We, and the rest of life with whom we share this planet,
will have to survive in the future with an ocean that is hotter,
higher, and more acidic than at any time in the recent evolutionary
past. The ideas presented in this book will buy us time. They
highlight the possible. They empower us with simple, cost
effective, and sustainable solutions for universal problems. The
ideas in this book encourage us to reach into the only tool kit we
have for broad-scale, long-lasting solutions. They exhort us to
harness the restorative power of nature."
—James W. Porter, PhD, Josiah Meigs Professor of Ecology and Marine
Sciences, University of Georgia
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