Environmental Records from Great Barrier Reef Corals: inshore versus offshore drivers.

The biogenic structures of stationary organisms can be effective recorders of environmental fluctuations. These proxy records of environmental change are preserved as geochemical signals in the carbonate skeletons of scleractinian corals and are useful for reconstructions of temporal and spatial flu...

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Main Authors: Benjamin D Walther, Michael J Kingsford, Malcolm T McCulloch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3799737?pdf=render