Coral reef ecological pump for gathering and retaining nutrients and exporting carbon:a review and perspectives

作     者：Linbin Zhou Yehui Tan Liangmin Huang Linbin Zhou;Yehui Tan;Liangmin Huang

作者机构：CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine BiologySouth China Sea Institute of OceanologyChinese Academy of SciencesGuangzhou 510301China Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Guangzhou)Guangzhou 511458China University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100049China 

出 版 物：《Acta Oceanologica Sinica》 (海洋学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2023年第42卷第6期

页      面：1-15页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0908[农学-水产] 070703[理学-海洋生物学] 07[理学] 0707[理学-海洋科学] 

基　　金：The Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) under contract No.GML2019ZD0405 the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos41506150 and 41130855 the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation under contract No.2019A1515011645 the National Science and Technology Basic Work Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under contract No.2015FY110600 the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province,China under contract No.2020B1212060058 the Development Fund of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under contract No.SCSIO202204 

主　　题：Darwin’s Paradox coral reef nutrients coral reef ecological pump carbon export ocean carbon cycle 

摘      要：How coral reefs with high productivity and biodiversity can flourish in oligotrophic tropical oceans has inspired substantial research on coral reef *** evidence shows that similar to water in an oasis in the desert,there are stable nutrient supplies to coral reefs in oligotrophic ***,with emphasis on the fluxes of organic matter,we summarize at the ecosystem level(1)the multiple input pathways of external nutrients,(2)the storage of nutrients in reef organisms,(3)the efficient retaining and recycling of dissolved and particulate organic matter within coral reef ecosystems,(4)the distinctly high phytoplankton productivity and biomass inside and near oceanic coral reefs,and(5)the export of reef-related organic carbon to adjacent open *** properties enable coral reefs to function as ecological“pumpsfor gathering nutrients across ecosystems and space,retaining and recycling nutrients within the ecosystem,supporting high phytoplankton productivity,and exporting organic carbon to adjacent open ***,the high phytoplankton productivity and biomass make waters around coral reefs potential hotspots of carbon export to ocean depths via the biological *** demonstrate that organic carbon influx is vital for coral reef ecosystems’carbon budget and carbon *** concept of the coral reef ecological pump provides a framework to improve the understanding of the functioning of the coral reef ecosystem and its responses to *** of the coral reef ecological pump in coral reef studies are discussed in changing oceans driven by human activities and global change in the Anthropocene.