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Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

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Project • CAF2015-RR13-NMY-Dautova, CAF2016-RR08-CMY-Dautova

Developing life-supporting marine ecosystems along the East Asia’s coasts

A synthesis of physical and biological data regarding coral reef ecosystems for the science-based management and socio-ecological policy making in terms of global sustainability

The project addresses the essential questions regarding the global change research – how to identify, explain and predict the changes in the ecosystems of coral reefs in the Asia-Pacific region under the natural and anthropogenic influence forcing?

The South China Sea, the greatest in Southeast Asia, is a strategic body of water that is surrounded by nations that are currently at the helm of industrialization and rapid economic growth in the region. Our project united the experience and knowledge of the scientists, managers and policy makers to synthesize the data on the physical environments together with the information on the biodiversity and reproductive potential of marine organisms for recognition of the risky changes in their populations and estimate its adaptive capacity under the global climate change. The project has fundamental relevance with APN Focus Activity being intended to promote the regional cooperative global change research via wide discussion and promotion of our results and conclusions at public and policy-making levels for developing the social-related policy options for the marine conservation.

Project publications

Peer-reviewed publication • 2021

New data on distribution of muscle and serotonin-containing cells in larvae of diadematid sea urchins from Nha Trang Bay (South China Sea)

Peer-reviewed publication • 2020

Towards a scientific-based farming of sea urchins: First steps in the cultivation of Diadema setosum, Diadema savignyi and Mesocentrotus nudus

Report • 2018

Project Final Report: CAF2016-RR08-CMY-Dautova

Peer-reviewed publication • 2018

Deep-water Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of the temperate Northern Pacific: Notes on the distribution and new bathyal-abyssal taxa from the Sea of Okhotsk

Peer-reviewed publication • 2018

Two new species of deep-water Calcigorgia gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the Kurile Islands, Sea of Okhotsk, with a review of distinctive characters of the known species of the genus

Peer-reviewed publication • 2017

Regeneration of the digestive system in the crinoid Himerometra robustipinna occurs by transdifferentiation of neurosecretory-like cells

Book / book chapter • 2017

Life-supporting Asia-Pacific Marine Ecosystems, Biodiversity and their Functioning

Peer-reviewed publication • 2017

Anterior regeneration after fission in the holothurian Cladolabes schmeltzii (Dendrochirotida: Holothuroidea): Kamenev and Dolmatov

Peer-reviewed publication • 2017

Nine New Triterpene Glycosides, Magnumosides A1–A4, B1, B2, C1, C2 and C4, from the Vietnamese Sea Cucumber Neothyonidium (=Massinium) magnum: Structures and Activities against Tumor Cells Independently and in Synergy with Radioactive Irradiation

Book / book chapter • 2017

Research of Larvae development of Asia-Pacific sea urchins and its importance for science-based aquaculture

Book / book chapter • 2017

Feeding mode diversity in Octocorallia can reflect their evolutionary determined taxa and morphology diversity

Conference material • 2016

Mariculture of holothurians and sea urchins – new trends

Conference material • 2016

Soft corals in the ecosystems of South China Sea

Conference material • 2016

Octocorals Alcyonacea in tropical and cold water ecosystems: biodiversity and pathways for dispersal

Peer-reviewed publication • 2016

The larvae of Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778) (Camarodonta: Diadematidae) from South China Sea

Peer-reviewed publication • 2016

Colochiroside E, an Unusual Non-holostane Triterpene Sulfated Trioside from the Sea Cucumber Colochirus robustus and Evidence of the Impossibility of a 7(8)-Double Bond Migration in Lanostane Derivatives having an 18(16)-Lactone