Reef health tipping-points: triage for threatened/collapsed reef ecosystems

珊瑚礁健康临界点：对受威胁/崩溃的珊瑚礁生态系统进行分类

• 批准号: FT200100949
• 负责人: Dr Scott Ling
• 金额: $ 64.8万
• 依托单位: University of Tasmania
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-02-26 至 2025-02-25
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT200100949
• 关键词: Reef; health; tipping; points; triage

The accelerating collapse of reef ecosystems represents one of the greatest threats for marine biodiversity and seafood production worldwide. To confront this emergency, this Fellowship will determine reef health tipping-points and provide a new 'reef ecosystem triage’ approach to prioritise the order of preventative treatments to safeguard threatened reefs, while directing remediation efforts to collapsed reefs where recovery is most probable. The research will directly benefit reef-dependent industries and coastal communities by providing an objective evidence-based reef health system to protect against collapse and to identify our greatest opportunities to recover vast biodiversity and economic potential for reef ecosystems.

珊瑚礁生态系统的加速崩溃是全球海洋生物多样性和海鲜生产的最大威胁之一。为了面对这种紧急情况，这项奖学金将确定礁石健康提升点，并提供一种新的“珊瑚礁生态系统分类”方法，以优先考虑预防性治疗的命令以保护珊瑚礁，同时指导修复工作以倒塌的珊瑚礁倒塌最为难以恢复。这项研究将通过提供客观的基于证据的礁石卫生系统来防止崩溃并确定我们最大的机会来恢复礁石生态系统的巨大生物多样性和经济潜力，从而直接受益于珊瑚礁依赖的行业和沿海社区。