Advances in understanding climate change on the Great Barrier Reef using coral-based proxies

GE Webb - Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Despite great international interest and progress in recovering coral-based palaeoclimate
records, there are surprisingly few records for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), particularly for …

Re-evaluating mid-Holocene reef “turn-off” on the inshore Southern Great Barrier Reef

ND Leonard, ML Lepore, J Zhao… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the face of changing global climate the future of corals reefs is uncertain. High latitude
reefs may offer potential refugia for corals under projected increasing sea surface …

Holocene coral reef development in Chenhang Island, Northern South China Sea, and its record of sea level changes

Y Ma, Y Qin, K Yu, Y Li, Y Long, R Wang, T Fan… - Marine Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Holocene coral reef development is valuable to understanding the behavior and impacts of
paleoclimate and sea level changes. This study focuses on the Holocene carbonate …

Temporal scales, sampling designs and age distributions in marine conservation palaeobiology

A Tomašových, S Dominici, R Nawrot, M Zuschin - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Conservation palaeobiology informs conservation and restoration of ecosystems by using
the fossil record to discriminate between baseline and novel states and to assess ecosystem …

RADReef: A global Holocene Reef Rate of Accretion Dataset

MG Hynes, A O'Dea, JM Webster, W Renema - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Reef cores are a powerful tool for investigating temporal changes in reef communities.
Radiometric dating facilitates the determination of vertical accretion rates, which has allowed …

Coral community of Holocene coral reef in the southern South China Sea and its significance for reef growth

M Zhao, Y Zhong, S Zhang, H Zhang, H Yang… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ancient coral reefs are rich archives of historical process and vital baselines for future
development. Coring gives a window into the growth of ancient coral reefs and the fossil …

Climate-modulated range expansion of reef-building coral communities off southeast Florida during the late Holocene

AB Modys, A Oleinik, RA Mortlock, LT Toth… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Holocene reefs off southeast Florida provide unique insights into the biogeographical
and ecological response of western Atlantic coral reefs to past climate change that can be …

Unraveling Moreton Bay reef history: An urban high-latitude setting for coral development

NM Hammerman, G Roff, T Lybolt, G Eyal… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
High-latitude habitats have become increasingly recognized as a potential climate refuge for
coral communities, supporting both tropical and sub-tropical corals. Despite the increasing …

Coral Gardens Reef, Belize: A refugium in the face of Caribbean-wide Acropora spp. coral decline

L Greer, T Clark, T Waggoner, J Busch, TP Guilderson… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Caribbean Acropora spp. corals have undergone a decline in cover since the second half of
the twentieth century. Loss of these architecturally complex and fast-growing corals has …

Marine conservation palaeobiology: What does the late Quaternary fossil record tell us about modern-day extinctions and biodiversity threats?

M Kowalewski, R Nawrot, D Scarponi… - Cambridge Prisms …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Near-time conservation palaeobiology uses palaeontological, archaeological and other
geohistorical records to study the late Quaternary transition of the biosphere from its pristine …