Consistency in coral skeletal amino acid composition offshore of Palau in the western Pacific warm pool indicates no impact of decadal variability in nitricline depth on primary productivity

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 399-407

  Williams, Branwen ^a   Thibodeau, Benoit ^b   Chikaraishi, Yoshito ^c   Ohkouchi, Naohiko ^c   Walnum, Andrew ^d   Grottoli, Andréa G ^e   Colin, Patrick L ^f  

^a KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d PITZER COLLEGE   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Coral Reef Research Foundation ^*  (Palau)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-ICE INTERACTION; AMINO ACID; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CARBON CYCLE; CORAL; DECADAL VARIATION; EUPHOTIC ZONE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITRATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SKELETON; THERMOCLINE; WARM POOL; WATER DEPTH;

CAROLINE ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALAU;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 85028259919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10364     Document Type: Article

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