REEF RESILIENCE

Decision support tools and evolutionary models

April 18, 2024

Session

Start
1:00 pm
End
2:50 pm
Room
Michaelmas Cay Room
Details

Reef managers, policymakers, researchers, rights-holders, industries and communities around the world are faced with increasingly difficult decisions about how to promote reef resilience in the face of climate change. Models and decision-support tools are critical to explore scenarios, assess their costs and benefits, and guide action despite resource constraints and uncertainty. Presentations within this session will describe the new tools, modelling capabilities, and workflows that support informed decision making around when, where and how to deploy reef protection and restoration actions. Topics in this session will also highlight the application of these tools in COTS control and reef restoration initiatives, in order to forecast, prioritise and deliver robust outcomes for people and the environment at multiple spatial scales.

Talks in this session

C~scape: a within-reef metacommunity modelling framework to inform reef management in an uncertain future

Juan Carlos Ortiz

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

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Bridge building between adaptation research and coral models

Vanessa Haller-Bull

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

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Fate of climate refugia in the Great Barrier Reef

Chaojiao Sun

CSIRO

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Context-dependent benefits of reef restoration: a simulation-based analysis

Arne Adam

The University of Queensland (UQ)

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Synthetic data for exploring resilient reef futures

Rose Crocker

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

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