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

珊瑚礁生态系统的加速崩溃是对全世界海洋生物多样性和海产品生产的最大威胁之一。为了应对这一紧急情况，该奖学金将确定珊瑚礁健康临界点，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顺序，以保护受威胁的珊瑚礁，同时将补救工作导向最有可能恢复的崩溃珊瑚礁。这项研究将直接造福于依赖珊瑚礁的行业和沿海社区，提供一个客观的、以证据为基础的珊瑚礁健康系统，以防止崩溃，并确定我们恢复珊瑚礁生态系统巨大生物多样性和经济潜力的最大机会。

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.