珊瑚礁是大自然最壮观和最美妙的创造物之一。它是有极高生物多样性和资源生产力的现代热带浅海生态系统,被誉为营养贫乏的大洋“蓝色沙漠”中高生物多样性和资源生产力的“绿洲”,海洋中的“热带雨林”,成为无数海洋生物理想的栖息场所,其中已记录的生物种类高达近十万种,占已记录世界海洋生物种类的一半以上。在一个珊瑚礁区共同生活的鱼类种数可高达3000 Coral reefs are one of the most spectacular and wonderful creatures of nature. It is a modern, tropical shallow-water ecosystem with extremely high biodiversity and resource productivity and is regarded as an oasis of high biodiversity and resource productivity in the under-nourished ocean “Blue Desert”, a “tropical rain forest” in the oceans, It has become an ideal habitat for numerous marine life, of which nearly 100,000 species have been recorded, accounting for more than half of the recorded species of marine life in the world. The number of fish cohabiting in a coral reef area can be as high as 3,000