Health and morphology assessment of coral reef and nurseries deployment in the western Maldives

The thesis includes the evaluation of the health and composition of the shallow reef of Feridhoo (Maldives) by means of transects and quadrats, the outline of nursery design and deployment for a long-term coral restoration project, including the description of the methods of cleaning and data collection, and discussion of the preliminary results on the statistical analysis performed on gained data regarding the health and growth of the corals within the nurseries to understand their efficacy and differences in order to identify the most suitable method.