TY - JOUR
T1 - Reef Adapt
T2 - A tool to inform climate-smart marine restoration and management decisions
AU - Wood, Georgina V.
AU - Griffin, Kingsley J.
AU - van der Mheen, Mirjam
AU - Breed, Martin F.
AU - Edgeloe, Jane M.
AU - Grimaldi, Camille
AU - Minne, Antoine J.P.
AU - Popovic, Iva
AU - Filbee-Dexter, Karen
AU - van Oppen, Madeleine J.H.
AU - Wernberg, Thomas
AU - Coleman, Melinda A.
PY - 2024/10/30
Y1 - 2024/10/30
N2 - A critical component of ecosystem restoration projects involves using genetic data to select source material that will enhance success under current and future climates. However, the complexity and expense of applying genetic data is a barrier to its use outside of specialised scientific contexts. To help overcome this barrier, we developed Reef Adapt (www.reefadapt.org), an innovative, globally applicable and expandable web platform that incorporates genetic, biophysical and environmental prediction data into marine restoration and assisted gene flow planning. The Reef Adapt tool provides maps that identify areas with populations suited to user-specified restoration/recipient sites under current and future climate scenarios. We demonstrate its versatility and practicality with four case studies of ecologically and evolutionarily diverse taxa: the habitat-forming corals Pocillopora damicornis and Acropora kenti, and macroalgae Phyllospora comosa and Ecklonia radiata. Reef Adapt is a management-ready tool to aid restoration and conservation efforts amidst ongoing habitat degradation and climate change.
AB - A critical component of ecosystem restoration projects involves using genetic data to select source material that will enhance success under current and future climates. However, the complexity and expense of applying genetic data is a barrier to its use outside of specialised scientific contexts. To help overcome this barrier, we developed Reef Adapt (www.reefadapt.org), an innovative, globally applicable and expandable web platform that incorporates genetic, biophysical and environmental prediction data into marine restoration and assisted gene flow planning. The Reef Adapt tool provides maps that identify areas with populations suited to user-specified restoration/recipient sites under current and future climate scenarios. We demonstrate its versatility and practicality with four case studies of ecologically and evolutionarily diverse taxa: the habitat-forming corals Pocillopora damicornis and Acropora kenti, and macroalgae Phyllospora comosa and Ecklonia radiata. Reef Adapt is a management-ready tool to aid restoration and conservation efforts amidst ongoing habitat degradation and climate change.
KW - Climate-change ecology
KW - Ecological modelling
KW - Population genetics
KW - Restoration ecolog
KW - Software
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85208161531&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/LP190100346
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/IE230100464
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/LP190100051
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/LP190100484
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP210101932
U2 - 10.1038/s42003-024-06970-4
DO - 10.1038/s42003-024-06970-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 39478133
AN - SCOPUS:85208161531
SN - 2399-3642
VL - 7
JO - Communications Biology
JF - Communications Biology
IS - 1
M1 - 1368
ER -
