Coral luminescence identifies the Pacific Decadal Oscillation as a primary driver of river runoff variability impacting the southern Great Barrier Reef

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rodriguez Ramirez, Alberto ^a   Grove, Craig A ^b   Zinke, Jens ^c,d   Pandolfi, John M ^a   Zhao, Jian Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; RUNOFF;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; AUSTRALIA; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DECADAL TIME SCALE; ECOLOGY; EL NINO; HYDROLOGY; LUMINESCENCE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION; RIVER; SEA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; GEOGRAPHY; ISLANDS; LINEAR MODELS; LUMINESCENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; RIVERS; SEASONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84897433253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084305     Document Type: Article

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