𝐂𝐨-𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬: Tim Lamont, Permas Bagya Maulana, Ines Lange, Muhammad Rizky Madjid, Andi Muh. Agung Pratama, Cicilia Valensi Parrangan, Tries Blandine Razak, Nick Graham

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠: Many thanks to Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, The FSBI and The Pew Charitable Trusts

📈 Some aspects of a coral reef can be restored quickly, but we should expect that its full complexity and diversity may take a longer time to recover 🪸 🐟 🪼 🦀 🐡

🍽️ With less of their preferred dietary corals around, corallivores swam further to find food, holding larger territories with lower population density.

💡Restored reefs recovered coral cover and some fish populations within 5 years, but not coral diversity and all fish populations.

🐡 Corallivorous fish had 𝘯𝘰𝘵 recovered to the same extent - there were more corallivores than on degraded reefs, but still only 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 as many as on healthy reefs.

📊 This is likely to do with coral 𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒚 - the preferred diets of corallivores were corals that were rare on restored reefs.

We surveyed corals and fishes on recently restored coral reefs (~5 yrs old), and found that...

🪸 Coral cover had recovered to approx. healthy levels

🐠 Some fish groups (herbivores, planktivores, omnivores) had also recovered to approx. healthy levels

But...

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