Conservation of reef corals in the South China Sea based on species and evolutionary diversity

• Main Authors: Huang, Danwei, Hoeksema, Bert W., Affendi, Yang Amri, Ang, Put O., Chen, Chaolun A., Huang, Hui, Lane, David J. W., Licuanan, Wilfredo Roehl Y., Vibol, Ouk, Vo, Si Tuan, Yeemin, Thamasak, Chou, Loke Ming
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Coral reefs and islands > Indo-Pacific Region; Coral reef ecology > Indo-Pacific Region; Coral reef conservation > Indo-Pacific Region
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3556; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/4558/type/native/viewcontent/s10531_016_1052_7.html
• Institution: De La Salle University

The South China Sea in the Central Indo-Pacific is a large semi-enclosed marine region that supports an extraordinary diversity of coral reef organisms (including stony corals), which varies spatially across the region. While one-third of the world’s reef corals are known to face heightened extincti...