Search Results - "Lough, M."
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Surviving coral bleaching events: porites growth anomalies on the Great Barrier Reef
Published in PloS one (19-02-2014)“…Mass coral bleaching affected large parts of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in 1998 and 2002. In this study, we assessed if signatures of these major thermal…”
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Small change, big difference: Sea surface temperature distributions for tropical coral reef ecosystems, 1950-2011
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (01-09-2012)“…Changes in tropical sea surface temperature (SST) are examined over the period 1950–2011 during which global average temperature warmed by 0.4°C. Average…”
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Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (05-01-2018)“…Tropical reef systems are transitioning to a new era in which the interval between recurrent bouts of coral bleaching is too short for a full recovery of…”
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Declining Coral Calcification on the Great Barrier Reef
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (02-01-2009)“…Reef-building corals are under increasing physiological stress from a changing climate and ocean absorption of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. We…”
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Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals
Published in Nature (London) (16-03-2017)“…During 2015–2016, record temperatures triggered a pan-tropical episode of coral bleaching, the third global-scale event since mass bleaching was first…”
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Great Barrier Reef coral luminescence reveals rainfall variability over northeastern Australia since the 17th century
Published in Paleoceanography (01-06-2011)“…Northeast tropical Queensland rainfall is concentrated in the summer half year and characterized by high interannual variability, partly related to El…”
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Losers and winners in coral reefs acclimatized to elevated carbon dioxide concentrations
Published in Nature climate change (01-06-2011)“…Ocean acidification due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions has negative effects on many marine organisms, but the long-term impacts are less well known…”
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New insights from coral growth band studies in an era of rapid environmental change
Published in Earth-science reviews (01-10-2011)“…The rapid formation of calcium carbonate coral skeletons (calcification) fuelled by the coral-algal symbiosis is the backbone of tropical coral reef…”
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Coral calcification from skeletal records revisited
Published in Marine ecology. Progress series (Halstenbek) (23-12-2008)“…Skeletal growth records in annually banded massive coral skeletons are an underexploited archive of coral responses to environmental changes. Average linear…”
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Carbonate clumped isotope variability in shallow water corals: Temperature dependence and growth-related vital effects
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (15-12-2012)“…Geochemical variations in shallow water corals provide a valuable archive of paleoclimatic information. However, biological effects can complicate the…”
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Perspectives on Massive Coral Growth Rates in a Changing Ocean
Published in The Biological bulletin (Lancaster) (01-06-2014)“…The tropical ocean environment is changing at an unprecedented rate, with warming and severe tropical cyclones creating obvious impacts to coral reefs within…”
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Growth of Western Australian Corals in the Anthropocene
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (03-02-2012)“…Anthropogenic increases of atmospheric carbon dioxide lead to warmer sea surface temperatures and altered ocean chemistry. Experimental evidence suggests that…”
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Human gut microbiome adopts an alternative state following small bowel transplantation
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06-10-2009)“…Small bowel transplants provide an exceptional opportunity for long-term study of the microbial ecology of the human small bowel. The ileostomy created at time…”
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Climate records from corals
Published in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Climate change (01-05-2010)“…Understanding the nature and causes of climate variability and change in the tropical oceans—the heat engine of the global climate system—is limited by the…”
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Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (15-08-2003)“…The diversity, frequency, and scale of human impacts on coral reefs are increasing to the extent that reefs are threatened globally. Projected increases in…”
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Shifting climate zones for Australia's tropical marine ecosystems
Published in Geophysical research letters (01-07-2008)“…Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are significantly warming along the northwest (NW) and northeast (NE) coasts of Australia ‐ regions containing well‐protected…”
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Coral skeletons reveal the history of nitrogen cycling in the coastal Great Barrier Reef
Published in Nature communications (20-03-2020)“…Anthropogenic nutrient discharge to coastal marine environments is commonly associated with excessive algal growth and ecosystem degradation. However in the…”
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Declining coral calcification in massive Porites in two nearshore regions of the northern Great Barrier Reef
Published in Global change biology (01-03-2008)“…Temporal and spatial variation in the growth parameters skeletal density, linear extension and calcification rate in massive Porites from two nearshore regions…”
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Mixed responses of tropical Pacific fisheries and aquaculture to climate change
Published in Nature climate change (01-06-2013)“…Pacific Island countries have an extraordinary dependence on fisheries and aquaculture. Maintaining the benefits from the sector is a difficult task, now made…”
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Tracing differences in iron supply to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge valley between hydrothermal vent sites: implications for the addition of iron to the deep ocean
Published in Biogeosciences (25-01-2023)“…Supply of iron (Fe) to the surface ocean supports primary productivity, and while hydrothermal input of Fe to the deep ocean is known to be extensive it…”
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