今年，中国科学家首次在南海发现鲸落现象。鲸落生态系统可以停留在深海，因为那里的水压大、温度低。
Chinese scientists found a whale fall for the first time in the South China Sea this year. The whale fall ecosystem can stay in the deep ocean because of great pressure and cold temperature there.
其他对于大堡礁及其生态系统的环境压力来自径流的水质问题，伴随着大规模珊瑚白化的气候变化以及棘冠海星的周期性爆发现象。
Other environmental pressures to the reef and its ecosystem include water quality from runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish.
而山上的树木则提供了冷凝所需的大量的表面物质，用生态学家的话说，“玄妙的凝析现象”就这样产生了。
The trees provide copious surfaces on which that condensation—“occult precipitation”, to ecologists—can take place.
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