Sun, Youfang, Huang, Lintao, McCook, Laurence J., and Huang, Hui (2022) Joint protection of a crucial reef ecosystem. Science, 377 (6611). p. 1163.

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[Extract] The South China Sea, situated just north of the Coral Triangle, contains abundant reef bioresources and provides a range of important ecological services. However, South China Sea reefs have suffered serious degradation due to local human activities, ocean warming, and outbreaks of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish. Furthermore, overfishing in the South China Sea has decimated its bioresources. Such degradation impairs ecosystem function and stability and, as a result, ecological goods and services. Countries adjacent to the South China Sea can act together to mitigate reef ecosystem damage.

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