Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems in the West Pacific: threatened ecosystems or hope for the reefs?

今年，在与国际合作者发生问题(健康问题和实地工作限制)后，实地工作的重点已在国内转移到珊瑚礁更深的区域。然而，通过该项目的国际合作，仍然可以获得浅层和中层深度的RERAGE数据和珊瑚从浅到深的DNA信息。按照最初的计划，该项目的成果已在瑞士日内瓦的INTECOL2022会议、日本石垣的日本珊瑚礁会议和美国洛杉矶的戈登中游珊瑚生态系统会议上公布。在出版物方面，已发表了两篇关于该项目某些成果的论文(发表在科学报告和海洋污染公报上)。

This year following issues with international collaborators (health issues and fieldwork constraints), the focus for fieldwork has been shifted domestically towards deeper areas of the reef. However, recruit data at shallow and mesophotic depths and DNA information on corals from shallow to deep could still be obtained through the international collaboration of this project.As planned in the initial proposal, the results of this project have been presented at the INTECOL2022 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Japan Coral Reef Conference in Ishigaki, Japan, and at the Gordon conference on Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems in Los Angeles, USA.In terms of publications, two papers (in Scientific Reports and Marine Pollution Bulletin) reporting on some results of this project have been published.