Evaluation of the fidelity of isotope records as an environmental proxy in the coral Montastraea

Coral Reefs

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 169-178

  Watanabe, Tsuyoshi ^a,b,c   Winter, A ^d,e   Oba, T ^a   Anzai, R ^a   Ishioroshi, H ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Caribbean Sea; Corals; Montastraea; Oxygen isotopes; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CARIBBEAN SEA;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; MONTASTRAEA; MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA; MONTASTREA; MONTASTREA FAVEOLATA;

EID: 0036938465     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-002-0218-9     Document Type: Article

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