Reef Importance Analysis Reefs are evaluated and scored by total larval enrichment potential versus 'neediness' of neighbouring reefs. A second component of the score simplifies connectivity considerations, counting only the number of connected 'needy' reefs (< 20% coral cover). Combined scores are generated on both a reef-wide and per-sector scale. Source: Pete Mumby
Score per sector Scores for each reef are scaled and applied per AIMS sector
Importance The sum of larval enhancement (implicitly counting the number of connected reefs), and number of reefs in need.
Importance (10% classes) Importance scores in each sector sorted in equal-sized chunks, where a score of 1 is in the bottom 10% of values in the sector and a score of 10 is in the top 10% of values.
Larval enrichment Examines the contribution of each reef to the supply of other reefs in need.
Connectivity The second component of the score examines how many 'needy' reefs (< 20% coral cover) are served by each reef
GBR score Scores for each reef at whole-of-reef scale
Overall importance score Final metric applied (0-2) without prioritisation for individual sectors. While this predicts the best of the GBR overall, it may neglect reefs that are locally important but not significant at whole-of-reef scale.
Other metrics
AIMS sector
Predicted coral cover Source: ReefMod (UQ) Yves-Marie Bozec & Pete Mumby
