Reef Adapt: A tool to inform climate-smart marine restoration and management decisions.

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Wood GV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11526119 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature