The use of proxy chemical records in coral skeletons to ascertain past environmental conditions in Florida Bay

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 384-397

  Swart, Peter Koenraad ^a   Healy, Genevieve ^a   Greer, Lisa ^a   Lutz, Michael ^a   Saied, Amel ^a   Anderegg, Daniel ^b   Dodge, Richard E ^b   Rudnick, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL RECORD; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

FLORIDA; FLORIDA BAY; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; SIDERASTREA RADIANS; SOLENASTREA BOURNONI;

EID: 0032850055     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353206     Document Type: Article

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