New tools for managing ecosystem responses to climate change on the southern Great Barrier Reef.

大堡礁（GBR）每年支撑着超过40亿美元的经济活动。 最近的证据表明，像GBR这样的珊瑚礁很容易受到气候变化的影响，这在地方和全球范围内都表现出来。 提供跟踪和了解这些变化的工具对有效的珊瑚礁管理战略至关重要。 该项目将在我们对气候变化影响的理解和可用工具方面取得重大进展。 在这样做的过程中，它还将首次全面和多学科地研究环境变化如何影响珊瑚礁生物，从珊瑚到海鸟种群。

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) underpins over $4 billions of economic activity each year. Recent evidence suggests that reefs like the GBR are vulnerable to climate change, which manifests itself at both local and global scales. Providing the tools for tracking and understanding these changes is vitally important to effective reef management strategies. This project will provide a major advance in our understanding and the tools available to manage the impacts of climate change. In doing so, it will also produce the first comprehensive and multidisciplinary look at how environmental variability impacts coral reef organisms from corals to seabird populations.