Coral skeletal extension rate: An environmental signal or a subject to inaccuracies?

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 405, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 73-79

  Carricart Ganivet, Juan P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Coral bleaching; Coral growth; Density banding; Environmental proxy; Sclerochronology

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EXOSKELETON; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SKELETAL REMAINS; TIMESCALE;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 79959355044     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2011.05.020     Document Type: Article

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