Reposted by @graciellarovira.bsky.social
🧵Can marine restoration lead to ecological recovery?
🌊Success is often assessed by short-term survival of transplants, but what about long-term changes in community (trait) composition?
We studied this for a key Mediterranean octocoral. 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Active restoration of a long-lived octocoral drives rapid functional recovery in a temperate reef
After a decade, a community with restored red coral nears the functional structure of natural ones.