With all the news that the Great Barrier Reef is dying, and has suffered very substantial damage and countless corals lost, it can be quite depressing to be a coral or reef lover. But if there’s one thing the media is good at is focusing on the negative and alarming, because “if it bleeds, it leads”.
肯定有一些严重的珊瑚礁进行了一些严重的退化，但还有一些研究人员，专注于珊瑚礁如何随着时间的推移而变化和恢复。有一个非常有趣和鼓舞人心的思想，称为深入礁避难假设，调查生活珊瑚的深层可能会如何重新划分杨柳（规定的条件适合再次珊瑚生长）。
深度礁避难假设仅涉及那些珊瑚的种类，这足以在浅层中生长and相当深水，如此浅水特定的珊瑚Acroporaspecies can’t really benefit from this deepwater reserve. But corals likeSeriatopora.,Tuthophora.和一些物种Montipora.可以为单个物种具有相当宽的深度分布。
最近的一项研究看了Seriatopora.birdnest corals which can be found growing in shallow waters in as little as 15 feet of water, all the way down to 120 feet in clear water. The purpose of the study was to investigate how the shallow and deepwater colonies differ in their breeding behavior, and yielded a ton of insight, at least from an aquaristic point of view.
由于居住深度，较少进入光和能源，深水野生野生珊瑚具有减少的生殖期间，它们的幼虫比浅水对应物更小而弱。这有些阻碍了他们对浅水礁的强大循环速度的能力，但这是一个生理性状，而不是遗传学。
的后代活珊瑚migrating a little bit more shallow, it is possible for these mesophotic corals to repopulate shallow water reefs, but on a pretty long timeline. Barring any kind of severe mixing or water flow disturbance, it won’t happen any time soon, but if we can restore and preserve the coral reef environment, the Deep Reef Refuge Hypothesis does hold hope that the ocean has a natural repository for coral reefs of the future. [蒙胸肉这是给予的
