Coral reef resilience to climate change in Guam in 2016

"Coral reef resilience is the capacity of a reef to resist or recover from degradation and maintain provision of ecosystem goods and services. Resilience-based management (RBM) has been developed to overcome the challenges of supporting ecosystem resilience in this era of rapid change. RBM involves the application of resilience theory and tools to deliver ecosystem-based management outcomes into the future. RBM of coral reefs can include assessing spatial variation in resilience potential and then targeting and tailoring appropriate actions to preserve or restore the resilience of reefs. Resilience assessments involve measuring or assessing resilience indicators (e.g., coral disease, coral recruitment and herbivorous fish biomass) and producing an aggregate score that expresses resilience potential for all sites as relative to the site with the highest (assessed) resilience potential. The Marine Fisheries Management Plan of Guam explains that understanding the resilience of reef fisheries and the coral reefs upon which they depend is needed for future assessments of yield. This project was designed to meet this need"--Introduction.