重点实验室主攻方向：亚热带滨海湿地生态系统的结构、功能及环境修复，具体为以下三个方向、六个研究重点：

方向一、红树林湿地生态系统结构与功能及其对全球变化的响应
研究重点1：红树林湿地生态系统重要物质循环过程及其驱动因子
研究重点2：滨海湿地生物多样性维持与生态适应

方向二：近岸生态系统过程、机理与效应
研究重点1：近岸近岸生态系统结构、功能及其对全球变化的响应 
研究重点2：生源要素的近岸生物地球化学过程与调控机制

方向三：滨海湿地典型污染物的生态毒理和修复
研究重点1：典型污染物的地球化学过程及生态毒理效应；
研究重点2：海岸带污染治理与生态修复 

Scope 1: Mangrove Wetland Ecosystems: Structure, Function and Response to Global Change

Focus 1: Material Cycling and Their Driving Forces in Mangrove Wetland Ecosystems

Focus 2: Biodiversity in Coastal Wetland: Maintenance and Ecological Adaptation.

Scope 2:  Coastal Ecosystems: Processes, Mechanisms and Effects

Focus 3: Coastal Ecosystems: Structure, Function and Response to Global Change

Focus 4: Coastal Biogeochemical Processes and Underlying Mechanisms of Biogenic Elements 

Scope 3: Ecotoxicology and Bioremediations of Typical Pollutants in Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems

Focus 5: Geochemical Processes and Ecotoxicological Effects of Typical Pollutants

Focus 6: Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration of Coastal Zones