Resilient reefs may exist, but can larval dispersal models find them?

Abstract

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is an interconnected system of thousands of coral reefs and shoals spanning more than 2,000 km of the eastern Australian coastline. Anthropogenic pressures-principally climate change-pose an existential threat to this iconic marine ecosystem Management actions are urgently required to halt and reverse the degradation, but the GBR's enormous size creates logistical and budgetary challenges.