Industry Strategic Science and Technology Plans (ISPs) Platform
After a crown of thorns infestation in 2019 followed immediately by consecutive typhoon events, extensive rubble fields have developed in Apo Reef Natural Park which have become traps for recruiting hard corals because of their relative instability. Parameters to measure substrate stabilization in this high energy area was determined using an experimental set-up that would …
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The Reef BayBe (A Coral Reef Decision-Making Tool & Primer, is a software with a manual package that integrates quantitative data and experts’ knowledge using a Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) model. This allows a more holistic look at our ridge-to-river-to-reef systems, and aims to help marine protected area managers and other users to make data-driven …
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The protocol is a guide on how to conduct coral assessment from site selection to photo transect method to data processing. This is necessary to have a standardized method so that assessment data generated are comparable. Further, considering the need to regularly update data on the country’s 6 marine bioregions (Celebes Sea, Northern Philippine Sea, …
Community level monitoring programs remain as an important source of primary data that help researchers elucidate important processes in complex systems. The two-year community monitoring effort conducted in Apo Reef Natural Park have shown the important role of large reef fishes in sustaining the recovery of the hard coral community after consecutive disturbances. The study …
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Culture technologies for sexually-derived coral propagules for reef restoration were developed and summarized in a manual entitled “Culture and rearing techniques of corals from larvae”. Results on the optimal size of sexual coral propagules appropriate for outplantation suggest that the performance of sexually-derived small coral outplants is highly affected by the condition of the outplantation …
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A Rapid Assessment Instrument for Coastal Benthic Habitats (ARAICoBeH) System is a set of low-cost survey equipment that can cover huge areas of both coral and non-coral sites within a short amount of time. ARAICoBeH System is deployed from a boat and is made up of three components: 1) an action camera on a small …
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The Coastal Acidification Program generated information on coastal acidification as a contribution to justify the inclusion of coastal acidification to the National Climate Change Action Plan and to provide actual Philippine coastal acidification data to the Global Ocean Acidification – Observing Network (GOA-ON). Through this program, data from 63 sites across the country was generated …
Understanding coastal acidification effects to corals and marine organisms Read More »
This project studied the genetic structure and connectivity of natural populations of representative coral species with varying dispersal potentials based on life history traits, e.g. a broadcast spawner (Acropora digitifera) which likely disperses further distances compared to a brooder which has restricted larval dispersal (Heliopora coerulea), and a species with mixed modes of reproduction and …
Genetic mechanisms that confer stress susceptibility or resilience to corals was determined using RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) technology. It was discovered that differences in the thermal tolerance of corals correlate with differences in the way that these species deploy their stress response tool kit when subjected to elevated temperature. This project is the first to capture the …
The physiological limits of 17 selected coral species in response to ocean acidification, ocean warming, and anthropogenic nutrient-coastal acidification stress were evaluated using manipulative experiments. As a result, a ranked list of coral stress tolerances was generated. It was found out that corals exhibited lower tolerance to thermal stress than ocean acidification. Moreover, corals exhibit …