Madagascar corals reveal a multidecadal signature of rainfall and river runoff since 1708

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 641-656

  Grove, C A ^a   Zinke, J ^a,b,h   Peeters, F ^c   Park, W ^d   Scheufen, T ^a,e,g   Kasper, S ^a   Randriamanantsoa, B ^f   McCulloch, M T ^b   Brummer, G J A ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Madagascar)

^g UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^h AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; DEFORESTATION; LUMINESCENCE; MONSOON; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RIVER; RUNOFF; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOIL EROSION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTION; WATER RESOURCE;

AUSTRALIA; MADAGASCAR; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84881178986     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-641-2013     Document Type: Article

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