Building the resilience of corals to increasing sea water temperatures and heatwaves.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science is helping to understand the natural capacity of corals and reefs to adapt to warming oceans and investigating several ways to enhance corals’ ability to resist bleaching. This is part of a suite of interventions being developed as part of the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program to help the Great Barrier Reef resist, adapt to, and recover from climate change impacts.
We know that corals vary in their tolerance to temperature. By understanding the mechanisms that underpin heat tolerance, researchers are investigating ways to enhance this trait from generation to generation. Researchers are also examining thermal tolerance of photosynthetic symbionts, the single-celled algae that live within the corals’ tissue.
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The Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program is funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.
