Coral restoration – A systematic review of current methods, successes, failures and future directions

• Lisa Boström-Einarsson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lisa.bostromeinarsson1@jcu.edu.au

  Affiliation TropWATER, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4814-9552

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• Russell C. Babcock,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Brisbane, Qld, Australia

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• Elisa Bayraktarov,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

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• Daniela Ceccarelli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Ecology Consultant, Magnetic Island, Qld, Australia

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• Nathan Cook,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Reef Ecologic, Townsville, Qld, Australia

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• Sebastian C. A. Ferse,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Future Earth Coasts, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany, Marine Ecology Department, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry (FB2), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0930-5356

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• Boze Hancock,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

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• Peter Harrison,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia

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• Margaux Hein,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TropWATER, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld, Australia

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• Elizabeth Shaver,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

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• Adam Smith,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Reef Ecologic, Townsville, Qld, Australia

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• David Suggett,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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• Phoebe J. Stewart-Sinclair,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

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• Tali Vardi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ECS for NOAA Fisheries, Office of Science & Technology, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

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• Ian M. McLeod

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TropWATER, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld, Australia

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