Skeletal P/Ca tracks upwelling in Gulf of Panamá coral: Evidence for a new seawater phosphate proxy

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  LaVigne, Michèle ^a   Field, M Paul ^a   Anagnostou, Eleni ^a   Grottoli, Andréa G ^b   Wellington, Gerard M ^c   Sherrell, Robert M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LASER ABLATION; MARINE BIOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHATES; SEAWATER;

LASER ABLATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEASONAL UPWELLING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL CYCLE; CALCIUM; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHORUS; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEAWATER; UPWELLING;

GULF OF PANAMA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA; PAVONA GIGANTEA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 43549105650     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031926     Document Type: Article

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