Hard bottom ecosystems

 

Hard bottom ecosystems: case studies

 

The economics of harvesting sea urchins for kelp forest restoration  (Urchinomics)

Oyster restoration on the Belgian Coast, North Sea (Royal Institute of  Natural Sciences, Belgium)​

Coral transplantation to mitigate dredging impacts on coral reefs for a port development (Créocéan)

Restoration of deep-water gorgonian forests on the Mediterranean continental shelf (Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC) Barcelona)

The importance of restoration actions in coastal marine habitats: Coralligenous habitats (University of Salento)   

Rigs to reefs? How oil and gas platforms might assist biological communities to recover and connect in the North Sea: The ANChor project (University of Edinburg)

Coral reef restoration - The ‘Coral Engine’: the way forward for coral reef rehabilitation (Van Oord)​

Assessing the effectiveness of restoration actions for Bryozoans: the case of the Mediterranean Pentapora fascialis (Marta Pagès-Escolà, Cristina Linares, Alba Medrano, Bernat Hereu, Daniel Gómez-Gras, Spain)

Flat oyster aquaculture and restoration in offshore environments (Brecht Stechele, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium)

Why is there so little policy support for reusing oil and gas installations as reefs in the North Sea? (Kristen Ounanian, Jan van Tatenhove and Paulina Ramírez-Monsalve,Centre for Blue Governance, University of Aarlborg, Denmark)

The Solent Oyster Restoration Project (Jacob Kean-Hammerson , Blue Marine Foundation - BLUE)