Use of skeletal Sr/Ca ratios to determine growth patterns in a branching coral Isopora palifera
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DOI: 10.1007/s00227-017-3099-8
Abstract: Studies on the growth response of corals to changing climate have largely focused on long-lived corals with relatively distinct density bands such as massive Porites corals. Little is known about the climatic response of other… read more here.
Keywords: coral isopora; skeletal ratios; density; branching coral ... See more keywords
Branching coral morphology affects physiological performance in the absence of colony integration
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DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0414
Abstract: For nearly 50 years, analyses of coral physiology have used small coral fragments (nubbins) to make inferences about larger colonies. However, scaling in corals shows that linear extrapolations from nubbins to whole colonies can be… read more here.
Keywords: calcification; integration; coral morphology; branching coral ... See more keywords