深水珊瑚林

汪品先

Deep-Sea Coral Forest

Pinxian Wang

图3 一座典型的深水珊瑚礁 （a）礁体上下分三部分；（b）~（d）“活珊瑚”区（d）由多孔冠珊瑚和多眼筛珊瑚占压倒优势；b 和c分别表示多孔冠珊瑚L. pertusa的个体（b）和群体（c）；（e）死珊瑚区种类最多，有活的柳珊瑚和海绵；（f）“破碎珊瑚”区多包壳型海绵[7]

Fig.3 A typical deep-sea coral reef （a）The reef is vertically constituted by three parts；（b）~（d）The "living coral zone" （d） dominated by Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata，and the individual living L. pertusa （b）interweaved into a community（c）；（e）"Dead framework zone" with diverse species including living gorgonian and sponges；（f）"Coral rubble zone" occupied by encrusting sponges[7]