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Influences of Human Activities on Coral Reef Ecosystems in Sanya, China

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As one of the most ecologically significant and human-related ecosystems, the coral reef ecosystem faces disturbances from human activities. As a consequence of social, economic, and technological development, those disturbances are extraordinarily obvious and impactful to the coral reefs in Sanya, China. The impacts of the four most influential human activities, leisure, land-based pollution, fishery, and industrialization, on the coral reef ecosystem in Sanya are analyzed in this paper. The human activities have either direct or indirect influences on the corals and other marine organisms by damaging the corals’ structures or hinder their physiological functions. This paper can be used as a reference to analyze impacts of human activities on corals in other areas and restrain people’s behaviors to protect and recover the coral reef ecosystem.

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    **nyu Lin

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Lin, X. (2023). Influences of Human Activities on Coral Reef Ecosystems in Sanya, China. In: Li, X., Yuan, C., Kent, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Economic Management and Green Development. Applied Economics and Policy Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7826-5_135

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