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 …

300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 C

MT McCulloch, A Winter, CE Sherman… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Anthropogenic emissions drive global-scale warming yet the temperature increase relative
to pre-industrial levels is uncertain. Using 300 years of ocean mixed-layer temperature …

Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger

BJ Henley, HV McGregor, AD King, O Hoegh-Guldberg… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in Australia between 2016 and 2024
was driven by high sea surface temperatures (SST). The likelihood of temperature-induced …

Coral Sr/Ca-SST reconstruction from Fiji extending to~ 1370 CE reveals insights into the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

JP D'olivo, J Zinke, R Goyal, MH England, A Purich… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The southwestern tropical Pacific is a key center for the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
(IPO), which regulates global climate. This study introduces a groundbreaking 627-year …

The Tara Pacific expedition—A pan-ecosystemic approach of the “-omics” complexity of coral reef holobionts across the Pacific Ocean

S Planes, D Allemand, S Agostini, B Banaigs… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Coral reefs are the most diverse habitats in the marine realm. Their productivity, structural
complexity, and biodiversity critically depend on ecosystem services provided by corals that …

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 …

Anion elements incorporation into corals skeletons: Experimental approach for biomineralization and paleo-proxies

S Ram, J Erez - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The elemental composition of coral skeletons provides important information for
palaeoceanographic reconstructions and coral biomineralization. Partition of anions and …

Evaluating satellite estimates of particulate backscatter in the global open ocean using autonomous profiling floats

KM Bisson, E Boss, TK Westberry, MJ Behrenfeld - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Satellite retrievals of particulate backscattering (b_bp) are widely used in studies of ocean
ecology and biogeochemistry, but have been historically difficult to validate due to the …

Coral Li/Mg thermometry: caveats and constraints

K Cuny-Guirriec, E Douville, S Reynaud, D Allemand… - Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The coral Li/Mg temperature proxy is revisited through an in-depth trace element
analysis of scleractinians collected live from tropical to polar environments. The dataset …

[HTML][HTML] Coral skeletal proxy records database for the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

AK Arzey, HV McGregor, TR Clark… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract The Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia, has a long history of palaeoenvironmental
coral research. However, it can be logistically difficult to find the relevant research and …