Effect of salinity on the skeletal chemistry of cultured scleractinian zooxanthellate corals: Cd/Ca ratio as a potential proxy for salinity reconstruction

Coral Reefs

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 169-180

  Pretet, Chloé ^a,f   Reynaud, Stéphanie ^b   Ferrier Pagès, Christine ^b   Gattuso, Jean Pierre ^c,d   Kamber, Balz S ^e   Samankassou, Elias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Centre Scientifique de Monaco   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Elemental ratios; Laboratory culture; Oxygen isotopes; Salinity proxy; Scleractinians; Sea surface salinity (SSS); Sea surface temperature (SST)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893726049     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-013-1098-x     Document Type: Article

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