TITLE:
Results of Thirty Years of Research on Corals and Reefs of Vietnam
AUTHORS:
Yuri Ya. Latypov
KEYWORDS:
Scleractinia, Coral Communities, Species Richness, Vietnam
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Marine Science,
Vol.6 No.2,
April
19,
2016
ABSTRACT: The author traced the
history of the thirty years of study of the Vietnamese reefs since the second
half of the 20th century up to the present time. This paper describes the types
of reefs, taxonomic composition and structure of Scleractinian reef ecosystems.
It is shown that due to a high level of diverse knowledge revealed, high
species richness of coral fauna of Vietnam (376 species of 80 genera) is a
single point of origin coral fauna Indo-Pacific. Analysis of knowledge of
Vietnamese corals and reefs revealed the extent of their positive or negative
status under anthropogenic influence or under the level of wilderness
protection, experiment on artificial cultivation of corals and the re-establishment
of a coral community.