Research Team
Coral Reef System Science Research Group
Group Profile
This group focuses on the systematic research of coral reefs in the South China Sea (SCS), and aims to explore their ecological, geological, and environmental processes. Our current research includes the SCS coral reefs’ response and adaptation to global warming, the formation and evolution of SCS coral reefs and their record of climatic history, as well as the SCS coral reefs’ mechanisms of degradation and potential ecological restoration techniques.
Research Directions
(1) Coral reefs’ modern processes: The response and adaptive mechanisms of the coral reef ecosystem to global change, including the dynamic processes of coral reef ecosystems, the coral reefs’ biodiversity and their ecological functions, the assemblage and evolution of the coral holobiont, the carbon cycle of the coral reef ecosystem, and the response of coral reefs to anthropogenic activities such as new pollutants.
(2) Coral reefs’ geological processes: Using deep drilling to study the formation and evolution of coral reefs in the South China Sea, as well as their record of tectonic activities, sea level rise and fall, temperature change, monsoon intensity, ecological evolution history; based on coral cores, we reconstruct the Holocene high-resolution temperature, ENSO, sea levels, storm activities and other environmental history and climatic events, as well as their ecological impacts on the coral reefs in the South China Sea.
III. Research Team: Requirements:
(1) Principal Investigator (PI): Resume of Professor Kefu Yu
Research Team
Prof. Kefu Yu
Email: kefuyu@scsio.ac.cn
Professor Kefu Yu has been focusing on the study of coral reefs of the South China Sea since 1992, and has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers and several books.
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