supported by Knowledge Innovation Program of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. LYQY200806);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40976030 and 40572072);Important Direction Project of Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-228)
Modern fringing reefs are developed on the intertidal to subtidal area of Xiaodonghai bay, Sanya, Hainan Island. The reef flat extends several dozen meters toward the sea. Various ecological and sedimentary zonations ...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40472067 and 40572072);Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;the Important Direction Project of Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX3-SW-234)
Meiji (Mischief) coral atoll, in Nansha (Spratly) Islands, South China Sea, consists of an annular reef rim surrounding a central lagoon. On the atoll rim there are either protuberant 'motu' (small coral patch reefs o...
the Hundred Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40472067 and 40572072);the Foundation of CAS Key Laboratory of Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (Grant No. MSGL0601)
Two research methods, geomicrobiology and carbonate sedimentology, were adopted to study the microbial carbonates in the beachrocks, Shuiweiling, Luhuitou, Sanya City, Hainan Island. The results indicate that microbia...