The giant oyster Hyotissa hyotis from the northern Red Sea as a decadal-scale archive for seasonal environmental fluctuations in coral reef habitats

Coral Reefs

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1061-1075

  Titschack, J ^a,b   Zuschin, M ^c   Spotl C ^d   Baal, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bivalves; Environmental archive; Molluscs; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; BODY SIZE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHLOROPHYLL A; CORAL REEF; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EVAPORATION; FOSSIL RECORD; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPEN WATER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RESPIRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWATER; SEMIENCLOSED SEA; SHELL; TRANSECT;

BAY OF SAFAGA; EGYPT; RED SEA [(GVR) EGYPT];

ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; HYOTISSA HYOTIS; MOLLUSCA; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 78649323826     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-010-0665-7     Document Type: Article

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