分布于相对高纬度的亚热带珊瑚礁和珊瑚群落,与热带珊瑚礁一样具有重要的研究价值,但实际上对相对高纬度珊瑚的研究相对稀少。在我国南海,相对高纬度的珊瑚礁和群落主要分布于广西涠洲岛、广东大亚湾、香港、福建东山、台湾等海域。近年来,一些学者利用生物、生态、地质、地球化学等研究方法,围绕“珊瑚群落演变与全球变化的关系”、“珊瑚对环境变化的高分辨率记录”等领域,在相对高纬度海域开展了一些研究工作。本文首先简略介绍相对高纬度珊瑚的研究意义,然后着重综述南海相对高纬度珊瑚对海洋环境变化的响应和高分辨率记录,以期通过综述前人的研究成果,为接下来的研究提出新问题、开创新思路提供借鉴。 Subtropical coral reefs and coral assemblages distributed at relatively high latitudes are of great research value as tropical coral reefs, but relatively few studies have been conducted on relatively high latitude corals. In China’s South China Sea, coral reefs and communities at relatively high latitudes are mainly distributed in Guangxi Weizhou Island, Daya Bay in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Dongshan in Fujian, Taiwan and other seas. In recent years, some scholars have made use of such research methods as biology, ecology, geology and geochemistry to focus on the relationship between the evolution of coral communities and global change, and the high-resolution coral record of environmental change. Some high-latitude waters carried out some research work. This paper first briefly introduces the research significance of relatively high latitude coral and then focuses on the response and high-resolution records of the relatively high latitude coral in the South China Sea to the changes of the marine environment in order to summarize the previous research results and propose new problems for the next study, Open up new ideas to provide reference.