Interannual stability of organic to inorganic carbon production on a coral atoll

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 3880-3888

  Kwiatkowski, Lester ^a   Albright, Rebecca ^a   Hosfelt, Jessica ^b,c   Nebuchina, Yana ^a   Ninokawa, Aaron ^b,c   Rivlin, Tanya ^d,e   Sesboüé, Marine ^a   Wolfe, Kennedy ^f   Caldeira, Ken ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

calcification; carbon cycling; coral reefs; ocean acidification; saturation state

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CARBON; CARBONATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REEFS;

CARBON CYCLING; CORAL REEF; LONG-TERM IMPACTS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN ACIDIFICATIONS; SATURATION STATE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL SAMPLING;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ACIDIFICATION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATOLL; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CALCIFICATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBONATE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON; SAMPLING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84992303369     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068723     Document Type: Article

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