ArticleNature communications2023
The potential for coral reef restoration to mitigate coastal flooding as sea levels rise.
Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Success of restoration strategies in preventing extirpation of 2 critically endangered coral species.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Towards a systematic framework to assess restoration success of interventions in coral reef ecosystems.PloS one · 2026Article
- Species-specific metabolomic profiles of coral reef coralline algae and their influence on the larval settlement of corals and crown-of-thorns starfish.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Coral cover and species responses to heat exposure vary across contemporary Western Atlantic reefs.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Coral restoration can drive rapid increases in reef accretion potential.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Hybrid coral reef restoration can be a cost-effective nature-based solution to provide protection to vulnerable coastal populations.Science advances · 2025Article
- Quantifying coral reef accretion in a changing world: approaches, challenges and emerging opportunities.Cambridge prisms. Coastal futures · 2025Review
- Scaling-up coral reef carbonate production: Sea-urchin bioerosion suppresses reef growth in Hawai'i.PloS one · 2025Article
- Enhancing reef carbonate budgets through coral restoration.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Assessing spatiotemporal change in coral reef social-ecological systems.Ecology and society : a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability · 2024Article
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Abstract
The ability of reefs to protect coastlines from storm-driven flooding hinges on their capacity to keep pace with sea-level rise. Here, we show how and whether coral restoration could achieve the often-cited goal of reversing the impacts of coral-reef degradation to preserve this essential function. We combined coral-growth measurements and carbonate-budget assessments of reef-accretion potential at Buck Island Reef, U.S. Virgin Islands, with hydrodynamic modeling to quantify future coastal flooding under various coral-restoration, sea-level rise, and storm scenarios. Our results provide guidance on how restoration of Acropora palmata, if successful, could mitigate the most extreme impacts of coastal flooding by reversing projected trajectories of reef erosion and allowing reefs to keep pace with the ~0.5 m of sea-level rise expected by 2100 with moderate carbon-emissions reductions. This highlights the potential long-term benefits of pursuing coral-reef restoration alongside climate-change mitigation to support the persistence of essential coral-reef ecosystem services.
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