Reef-building corals can shift from autotrophic to heterotrophic feeding during episodic heatwaves, which may have mitigating effects on thermal stress. It is yet unclear to what extent this could occur during early life stages of corals, and how this affects survival. We exposed settlers (primary polyps) of the Caribbean Golf ball coral Favia fragum to a lab-controlled heatwave lasting 48 days under two feeding regimes (36 ve...

Sea temperature increases may compromise ecological restoration as a tool for recovering degraded coral reefs. A potential solution may lay within using corals with naturally higher thermal resilience, such as intertidal corals. This study aimed at comparing thermal resilience, growth and survival between intertidal and subtidal corals in a reciprocal transplant experiment. Sixty coral nurseries were installed in a shallow cor...

Monitoring of reef restoration efforts and artificial reefs (ARs) has typically been limited to coral fragment survival, hampering evaluation of broader objectives such as ecosystem recovery. This study aimed to determine to what extent AR design influences the ecological recovery of restored reefs by monitoring outplanted coral fragments, benthic cover, coral recruitment and fish and invertebrate communities for two years. Fo...