珊瑚礁区的生物多样性及其生态功能_赵美霞.pdf

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., 　5 1030 1;2., 　100049) :, , 。, , 、 , 、。、, 。、、 , , , 、、、, , 。 :;;; :1000-0933(2006)01-0186-09 　:Q14,Q 178.1　:A Review on coral reefs biodiversity and ecological function 1,2 1 1 ZHAO Me -X a , YU Ke-Fu , ZHANG Q ao-M n 　(1.South China Sea Institute of Oceanology , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Guangzhou 5 10301, China;2.Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, B eji ing 100049, China ).Acta Ecolog ica Sinica, 2006,26(1):186 ～19 . Abstract:Coral reefs are hab tats to hundreds and thousands of organ sms and are thus w ell known as “the ra nforests n the ocean”.They const tute one of the worlds most spectacular ecosystems.Many b olog sts and ecolog sts have employed a mult tude of exper mental approaches n the study of coral reefs.These stud es have revealed that reef systems host nvaluable b od vers ty . Albe t about a th rd of all mar ne organ sms thr ve n coral reef ecosystems, surpr s ngly, the r total area makes up 1%of mar ne surface area.Furthermore, only about 10%of all spec es on reefs have been stud ed and descr bed w th the d rect mpl cat on that about 90 %of the spec es on the worlds coral reefs have rema ned und scovered.There are two major coral faunas:Indo-pac f c and Atlant c .The Indo-pac f c reef system s character zed by relat vely h gher b od vers ty than the Atlant c probably due to dfferent dynam c processes tak ng place n these two systems.Corals are sens t ve to factors such as sal n ty, sed ment and nutr ent nputs to mar ne syste