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26 1 Vol.26,No. 1 2006 1 ACTA ECOLOGICA SINICA Jan. ,2006 1, 2 1 1 赵美霞 , 余克服, 张乔民 ( 1, 510301; 2 , 100049) :, ,, , ,, ,, ,, , : ; ; ; :2006):Q14,Q1781 :A Review on coral reefs biodiversity and ecological function 1,2 1 1 ZHAOMeiXia , YU eFu , ZHANG QiaoMin ( 1.South China Sea I nstitute of Oceanology , Chi nese Academy of Sciences , Guangzhou 510301, China; 2. Graduate School of Chinese A cademy of Sciences , Beji ing 100049, China ) . Act a Ecologica Sinica, 2006, 26( 1 : 186~ 194. Abstract:Coral reefs are habitats to hundreds and thousands of organisms and are thus well known as the rainforests in the ocean . They constitute one of theworld! smost spectacular ecosystems. Many biologistsand ecologistshave employeda multitude of experimental approaches in the study of coral reefs. These studieshave revealedthat reef systems host invaluable biodiversity. Albeit about a third of all marine organisms thrive in coral reef ecosystems, surprisingly, their total area makes up 1% of marine surface area. Furthermore, only about 10% of all species on reefs have been studied and described with the direct implication that about 90% of the species on the world! s coral reefs have remained undiscovered. There are two major coral faunas: Indopacific andAtlantic. The Indopacific reef system is characterized by relatively higher biodiversity than the Atlantic probably due to different dynamic processes taking place in these two systems. Corals are sens