Environmental records from coral skeletons: A decade of novel insights and innovation

DM Thompson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hundreds of coral paleoclimate records have been developed over the past several
decades, significantly extending the instrumental record and improving our understanding of …

Coral skeletal geochemistry as a monitor of inshore water quality

N Saha, GE Webb, JX Zhao - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Coral reefs maintain extraordinary biodiversity and provide protection from tsunamis and
storm surge, but inshore coral reef health is degrading in many regions due to deteriorating …

Profiles of trace elements and stable isotopes derived from giant long-lived Tridacna gigas bivalves: Potential applications in paleoclimate studies

M Elliot, K Welsh, C Chilcott, M McCulloch… - Palaeogeography …, 2009 - Elsevier
This study investigates the environmental and biological controls on trace element
partitioning and stable isotope composition of modern giant long-lived bivalves (Tridacna …

Coupling biogeochemical tracers with fish growth reveals physiological and environmental controls on otolith chemistry

GL Grammer, JR Morrongiello, C Izzo… - Ecological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Biogeochemical tracers found in the hard parts of organisms are frequently used to answer
key ecological questions by linking the organism with the environment. However, the …

Climate records from corals

JM Lough - Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: climate change, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the nature and causes of climate variability and change in the tropical
oceans—the heat engine of the global climate system—is limited by the relatively short …

Reconstructing twentieth‐century sea surface temperature variability in the southwest Pacific: A replication study using multiple coral Sr/Ca records from New …

KL DeLong, TM Quinn, FW Taylor - Paleoceanography, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Coral‐based climate reconstructions typically have not used multiple cores from a region to
capture and replicate a climate signal largely because of concerns of coral conservation …

Barium isotope fractionation during witherite (BaCO3) dissolution, precipitation and at equilibrium

V Mavromatis, K van Zuilen, B Purgstaller… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
This study examines the behavior of Ba isotope fractionation between witherite and fluid
during mineral dissolution, precipitation and at chemical equilibrium. Experiments were …

High-resolution marine data and transient simulations support orbital forcing of ENSO amplitude since the mid-Holocene

M Carré, P Braconnot, M Elliot, R D'agostino… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lack of constraint on spatial and long-term temporal variability of the El Niño southern
Oscillation (ENSO) and its sensitivity to external forcing limit our ability to evaluate climate …

Crystal fabrics and element impurities (Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca, and Ba/Ca) in shells of Arctica islandica—Implications for paleoclimate reconstructions

BR Schöne, P Radermacher, Z Zhang… - Palaeogeography …, 2013 - Elsevier
Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca and Ba/Ca values are heterogeneously distributed in shells of Arctica
islandica. These patterns are largely associated with crystal fabrics (size, habit and …

Insights from barium variability in a Siderastrea siderea coral in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico

MM Weerabaddana, KL DeLong, AJ Wagner… - Marine Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Coral Ba/Ca is a proxy for seawater barium concentration that varies with upwelling,
terrigenous input, and marine productivity whereas coral Sr/Ca varies with temperature. We …