Proteinaceous corals as proxy archives of paleo-environmental change
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Proteinaceous corals as proxy archives of paleo-environmental change

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  • Journal Title:
    Earth-Science Reviews
  • Personal Author:
    Williams, Branwen
  • NOAA Program & Office:
    CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
  • Description:
    High-resolution marine data are critical to evaluating anthropogenic impacts on our environment. Considering the spatial and temporal limitations of direct instrumental measurements, proxy data extracted from marine environmental archives are necessary to separate anthropogenic changes from those that would occur naturally. The majority of late-Holocene, high resolution environmental reconstructions are derived from marine carbonates including tropical scleractinian corals, bivalves, crustose coralline algae, and sclerosponges. However, these archives are restricted to the top hundreds of meters of the water column, and only preserve environmental variability that is captured by calcium carbonate skeletons. At a very few select locations, marine sediments archive annual environmental variability in organic and inorganic materials. Recently, additional types of corals are proving to yield information complimentary to these traditional marine archives, including cold water scleractinian corals and proteinaceous corals. A taxonomically-diverse group, the proteinaceous corals are broadly defined as those having a branching gross-morphology with skeleton comprised at least partly of protein-rich organic material. They encode characteristics of their food and ambient environment into the chemical and physical composition of their skeleton. This environmental-encoding combined with their banded skeleton and significant longevity means that proteinaceous corals hold information in their skeleton that helps fill the spatial and temporal gaps in our knowledge of past and present ocean conditions.
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    Earth-Science Reviews, 209, 103326
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    0012-8252
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    Elsevier BV
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