Photosynthetic traits as “key performance indicators” of coral health

光合特性作为珊瑚健康的“关键绩效指标”

• 批准号: DP160100271
• 负责人: Prof David Suggett
• 金额: $ 27.65万
• 依托单位: University of Technology Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP160100271
• 关键词: Photosynthetic; traits; key; performance; indicators

The objective of this project is to advance knowledge on the healthy functioning of the coral–algal symbiosis, which defines the response of coral reef ecosystems to worldwide environmental change. Current approaches to address this problem have linked coral health to algal symbiont diversity but have been unable to resolve the fundamental symbiont functional traits that govern this link – the “key performance indicators (KPIs)”. This project plans to couple advanced physiological and functional genomics techniques to transform our understanding of how algal symbiont metabolic KPIs regulate coral growth and stress susceptibility. This may provide new diagnostic capability for the assessment of coral health and may enable us to improve coral reef ecosystem management.

该项目的目标是增进关于珊瑚-藻类共生的健康运作的知识，该共生定义了珊瑚礁生态系统对全球环境变化的反应。目前解决这一问题的方法将珊瑚健康与藻类共生体多样性联系起来，但无法解决支配这一联系的基本共生体功能特征--“关键绩效指标”。该项目计划结合先进的生理和功能基因组学技术，改变我们对藻类共生体代谢KPI如何调控珊瑚生长和胁迫敏感性的理解。这可能为珊瑚健康评估提供新的诊断能力，并可能使我们能够改进珊瑚礁生态系统管理。