Fig. 1: Quantifying the hypothetical cost of broad-scale coral restoration.
From: Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation
The plots show the upper and lower bounds (shaded areas) and median values (solid lines) of estimated restoration costs of coral reefs based on published values as a function of the area of degraded reef that could be rehabilitated according to different techniques. The data used to estimate the upper, median and lower boundaries are from Table 1 of Bayraktarov et al.32. We report these data together with estimates of the costs to restore 10% of the 11,700 km2 (that is, 1,170 km2 = 117,000 ha) area of damaged reef (dashed lines in each plot).
