Environmental and Climate Proxies Embedded in Coral Skeletons
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Chapter Title
- Environmental and Climate Proxies Embedded in Coral Skeletons
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Title
- Coral Reefs of the Western Pacific Ocean in a Changing Anthropocene
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Part Of Series
- Coral Reefs of the World
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Author(s)
- Hong, Gi Hoon; Kim, Suk Hyun; Baskaran, Mark
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Alternative Author(s)
- 김석현
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Publisher
- Springer
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Abstract
- Scleractinian (hard layered) corals live for several centuries or longer in the tropical surface waters that comprise about half of the total surface area of the world’s oceans. Coral reefs in the tropical surface waters are the largest biologically produced natural features over the Earth’s surface. About 20% of modern carbonate accumulation takes place in coral reefs. The relatively thick annual growth bands of coral skeleton (usually around 10 mm a year) have provided a wealth of information on the climate and environmental changes that occurred in the past. These environmental archives are becoming essential to forecast the future climate and environmental changes in their local habitats in the tropical regions including the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool region that plays a significant role in the world ocean and atmospheric circulation, hence in the entire globe. Deep-sea scleractinian corals often living more than a millennium have been found in most oceans, and these slow-growing corals (a few micron meters a year) have also been found to faithfully record climate and environmental changes that occurred in the ocean. This chapter introduces the status of the scientific investigation on a coral skeleton climate and environmental proxies to the audience who are interested in coral reef with respect to climate and environmental change. It will briefly cover the biomineralization process, methods of sampling coral cores and subsequent cleaning for further chemical analysis, skeleton age determinations, and the utilities of selected chemical elements and selected isotope proxies (Li, B, C, N, O, F, Na, Ca, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Y, Mo, Cd, I, Ba, REEs, Nd, Pb, U, Pu). This chapter is largely dealt with surface-dwelling tropical corals, but it also includes some proxy studies on deep corals.
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Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction and Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
R. John Morrison, Jing Zhang, Gi Hoon Hong, and Thamasak Yeemin
2 Anthropogenic Environmental Impacts on Coral Reefs in the Western and
South-Western Pacific Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
R. John Morrison and W. G. L. Aalbersberg
3 Advances in Coral Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Thamasak Yeemin, Vo Si Tuan, and Suharsono
4 Reef Ecology in the Western Pacific for Adaptation to Global Change . . . . . . . 55
Makamas Sutthacheep, Thamasak Yeemin, and Porfirio M. Aliño
5 Biogeochemical Dynamics of Coral Reef Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Jing Zhang, Yi Xu, Hui Huang, Xiu Bao Li, Wei Zheng, and Dao Ru Wang
6 Environmental and Climate Proxies Embedded in Coral Skeletons . . . . . . . . . 135
Gi Hoon Hong, Suk Hyun Kim, and Mark Baskaran
7 Synthesis and Future Perspectives on the Coral Reefs in the Western Pacific
Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Jing Zhang, Gi Hoon Hong, R. John Morrison, and Thamasak Yeemin
Postscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
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ISSN
- 2213-719
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URI
- https://sciwatch.kiost.ac.kr/handle/2020.kiost/43470
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DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-97189-2_6
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Bibliographic Citation
- Coral Reefs of the World, Springer, pp.135 - 178, 2022
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Subject
- Coral skeleton, Chemical element and isotope compositions, Climate and environmental proxies/tracers, Dating
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Type
- Book Chapter
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Language
- ENG
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Total Pages
- 197
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