The EcoRRAP R&D Subprogram was part of RRAP’s first R&D phase and aimed to fill key knowledge gaps essential for the success and cost-effectiveness of reef restoration interventions.
An integrated field program, EcoRRAP provided data on region-, temperature- and species-specific coral life-histories. It quantified natural rates of recovery and adaptation in response to global and local changes, as well as rates of recovery in response to interventions.
The central objective was to optimise interventions by understanding the ‘how, where, and when’ of natural reef recovery. This foundational data helped to inform assumptions and decisions across the whole of RRAP and enable the success and cost-effectiveness of intervention research and development.
Alongside subprogram management and coordination, this project focused on the establishment and long-term monitoring of Reference Reef sites across the length and breadth of the Reef. The Reference Reef sites provided critical baseline data sets to support RRAP decision makers in determining the how, why, and where of intervention deployment.
This project generated knowledge on the important traits driving natural recovery and adaptation to both disturbances like heat stress and to restoration interventions. The project investigated the variation of these traits across space, time, environments, and species.
This project aimed to inform coral restoration planning by identifying agents of mortality for juvenile corals and how these vary in relation to environmental and ecological interactions, as well as defining the ideal size and density of adult corals to overcome reproduction bottlenecks and support larval production to optimise natural recovery.
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| Title | Conference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 2D Orthomosaics and 3D models inform on size, location and spacing of abundant corals of the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Automating data extraction from underwater 3D models of coral reefs. | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Do Cryptic Coral Taxa Segregate by Microhabitat? A 3D-reefscape Approach | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Examining trade-offs between coral growth and heat tolerance using 3D models | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Field-Validating Coral Larval Connectivity Models To Inform Spatial Planning For Reef Restoration | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Finding reef renewal hotspots to aid strategic restoration (Poster) | Convergence 2022 CSIRO Early Career Conference | 2022 |
| In-situ growth rates of massive Porites corals derived from photogrammetric reconstructions | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Is fertilisation success of small outplanted coral patches even achievable? Density-dependent effects of fecund adult colonies on coral reproduction | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Making evidence-based decisions to manage coral reefs | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Photogrammetry takes stock of the abundance and prevalence of common coral taxa in the GBR and Torres Strait to inform restoration interventions | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Quantifying natural ecological processes to guide, predict and assess the effectiveness of reef restoration | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Quantifying natural ecological processes to guide, predict and assess the effectiveness of reef restoration | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Spatial genetic diversity of Stylophora pistillata across the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| The ecological counterfactual knowledge needed to predict and assess success of reef restoration | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| The ecological counterfactual knowledge needed to predict and assess success of reef restoration | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Understanding coral connectivity for restoration decision support | CSIRO Coasts and Oceans Research Program Mini-Symposium | 2022 |
| Allee effects in small coral populations – manipulating adult colony patches to assess fertilisation success | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Allee effects in small coral populations: manipulating adult colony patches to assess fertilisation success | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Automating data extraction from underwater 3D models of coral reefs. | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Can population genomics deliver on identifying locations of high adaptive potential for spatial conservation planning | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Coral reefs in 4D: A streamlined protocol for monitoring benthic communities using time-series photogrammetry data | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Estimating generational dispersal distances in corals using spatial autocorrelation | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Inferring relationships among fish corallivores, benthic habitats, and reef structure across the GBR and Torres Strait | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Measuring and modelling coral reef connectivity for restoration decision support | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Photogrammetry as a tool for marine ecosystem restoration (Keynote) | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Quantifying legacy effects of thermal stress on coral growth | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| The role of corals in modifying the structural state of temperate reefs | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Upper Limit in Coral Cover Across Environmental Gradients | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Validating hydrodynamic models of coral dispersal for planning coral reef restoration | Convergence 2023 CSIRO Early Career Conference | 2023 |
| Variation in the size structure of six dominant coral morpho-taxa in the Central Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Allee effects and critical spacing among corals | UN Ocean Decade Conference, Bangkok, Thailand | 2024 |
| Allee effects in small coral populations: manipulating adult colony patches to assess fertilisation success | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Automated segmentation of large-scale coral reef reconstructions using multi-view classification | Ocean Science Meeting (OSM) conference, New Orleans, United States of America | 2024 |
| Contrasting dispersal patterns predict the spatial scales of ecological and evolutionary processes in co-distributed coral species | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| Coral reefs in 4D: Using novel technologies to inform and advance restoration | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Ecological research and monitoring priorities to underpin coral reef restoration | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Finding the right environment for the right taxa to inform restoration | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| In silico assessment of Symbiodiniaceae community using coral hologenomes | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| In silico assessment of Symbiodiniaceae community using coral hologenomes | The Asian Pacific Congress of Protistology (APCOP-V), Fukuoka, Japan | 2024 |
| Optimizing sampling for fish assemblages and quantifying corallivorous bite rates on coral reefs using remote underwater videos | Taiwan International Symposium on Coral Reefs (TISCR), Taichung, Taiwan | 2024 |
| Potential winners and losers in an uncertain future: Effect of thermal strategies on the short- and mid-term performance of Great Barrier Reef corals | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| The Changing Focus of Coral-Macrophyte Interactions: A Review of Four Decades of Research | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| The Changing Focus of Coral-Macrophyte Interactions: A Review of Four Decades of Research | European Coral Reef Symposium (ECRS) 2024 Naples, Italy | 2024 |
| Variation in coral thermal tolerance during a mild bleaching event: the role of holobiont taxa, colony sizes, and local environmental conditions | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| A protocol for applying AI to detect coral seeding devices to monitor reef restoration | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference (ACRS), Townsville | 2025 |
| A review of the main ecological research outcomes underpinning the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP) | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference (ACRS), Townsville | 2025 |
| Cryptic speciation and thermal tolerance differences in the Stylophora pistillata coral species complex | West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium | 2025 |
| Evaluating drivers of fish corallivory on coral reefs in the Torres Strait and on the Great Barrier Reef | Joint Conference of the Asian Society of Ichthyologists (ASI) Annual Meeting and the 12th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (IPFC), Taipei, Taiwan | 2025 |
| More can make less: How supplementation and translocations can inadvertently degrade genetic diversity | 32nd International Congress for Conservation Biology | 2025 |
| Quantification of coral vital rates from large area images. | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference (ACRS), Townsville | 2025 |
| Quantifying coral bleaching and subsequent changes in demographic rates through successive marine heatwaves using photogrammetry: the role of environment, colony size, and taxa | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference (ACRS), Townsville | 2025 |
| RapidBenthos: Automated segmentation and multi‐view classification of coral reef communities from photogrammetric reconstruction | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference (ACRS), Townsville | 2025 |
| Thermal performance strategies may constrain natural and assisted evolution of corals | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference (ACRS), Townsville | 2025 |
| Introgression shapes adaptive diversity in Acropora cryptic corals on the Great Barrier Reef | Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology (CeMEB) | 2024 |
| Hidden dimensions of coral biodiversity: cryptic taxa, hybridisation, and why it matters for restoration | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Estimating dispersal distances in corals across the world using isolation-by-distance and data synthesis’ | Society for the Study of Evolution, Montreal, Canada | 2024 |
| Introgression shapes adaptive diversity in Acropora cryptic corals on the Great Barrier Reef | Society for the Study of Evolution, Montreal, Canada | 2024 |
| Estimating coral dispersal distances and contemporary effective population sizes across the world using a population genetic framework | 32nd International Congress for Conservation Biology | 2025 |
Tracking Reef Recovery: Explore 5 Years of Change in 3D
An interactive resource using high-resolution photogrammetry to show how coral communities have changed over time across multiple reef sites.
3D models produced using photogrammetry.
3D Imagery of the growth, recovery and survival of corals over time, provides vital information to support restoration efforts.
Peter Mumby
Professor
UQ
Manuel Gonzalez-Rivero
Research Scientist
AIMS
John Luetchford
Oceanographic Technician
AIMS
Pascal Craw
Research Scientist
CSIRO
Robert Mason
Research Scientist
CSIRO
Frank Coman
Research Assistant
CSIRO
Sam Noonan
Research Assistant
AIMS
Browyn Holmes
Research Assistant
CSIRO
Morane Le Nohaic
PhD Candidate
UQ and CSIRO
Hannah Allan
PhD Candidate
UQ
Elizabeth Buccheri
PhD Candidate
UQ
Isabella Marrable
AIMS and Uni. of Sydney
Sophie Gordon
Research Assistant
AIMS
Devin Rowell
PhD Candidate
UQ
Kelsey Webbe
PhD Candidate
JCU
