About Us

Island and Reef Ecological Restoration Laboratory, College of Marine Sciences, Guangxi University, covers an area of 120 square meters, including 31 sets of coral cultivation systems, cultivating 36 species of coral, a total of more than 800 strains. A research platform on coral response to abiotic stresses such as temperature, nutrient salts and environmental pollutants, and coral disease resistance mechanism has been built to provide scientific theoretical basis and practical materials for the protection and restoration of coral reefs in the South China Sea.

1 4m ×0.6m×0.6 m coral reef ecological display tank, 1 4m ×0.8 m×0.4m large breeding tank, 1 set of coral sexual reproduction system, 6 sets of coral cultivation system and 22 sets of independent experimental tanks.

Panoramic view of Island and Reef Ecological Restoration Laboratory

Research group independent experimental cylinder

It is the largest indoor reef-building coral living breeding hall in China, and it is also the living conservation hall of reef-building corals in China.

Since its establishment, the Coral Conservation Museum has attracted nearly 2,000 visitors every year and carried out Marine science popularization and publicity, received visiting leaders, well-known scholars at home and abroad and people from all walks of life, etc., and received attention and reports from CCTV News, New China Society, People's Daily Online, Huanqiu.com, Global Times, Lianhe Zaobao and other media at all levels, expanding the social influence of the Coral Conservation Museum.

Coral branch cultivation

A lot of scientific research has been carried out on coral artificial breeding, coral reef degradation and adaptation mechanism, and coral reef ecological protection and restoration technology.

The research results obtained through the platform are:

The indoor large-scale coral culture technology is mature, and the indoor growth rate of corals is: dendritic > flake > block, indoor dendritic coral growth can be as high as 10 cm /a, and the growth of corals can be as high as 10 times within 1 year

High temperature acclimation can enhance the tolerance of corals to heat stress, and heat acclimation is expected to be a method to enhance the heat tolerance of corals before transplantation and restoration

The mechanism of higher tolerance of lamellar corals than dendritic corals

Staghorn cup corals produced some juveniles, about 50, by sexual reproduction in the laboratory

Colorful coral and tropical fish