[Coral-List] corals and tides
Anne Cohen
acohen at whoi.edu
Tue Dec 7 13:11:55 EST 2004
Colleagues
I want to draw your attention to our paper published recently in GRL
which demonstrates a relationship between coral skeletal chemistry and
tidally-induced changes in water level height on weekly (and longer)
timescales. The link, we believe, is via tidal modulation of symbiont
photosynthesis (e.g. Anthony and Hoegh-Gulberg 2003); the effect of
photosynthesis on skeletal chemistry having been demonstrated
independently. The full reference is: Cohen AL, Reves-Sohn RA. (2004)
Tidal Modulation of Sr/Ca in a Pacific Reef Coral. Geophysical Research
Letters. Vol. 31, No. 16, L16310
Kind Regards,
Anne.
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Dr Anne L. Cohen
Department of Geology and Geophysics
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