Short-term coral bleaching is not recorded by skeletal boron isotopes.

Coral skeletal boron isotopes have been established as a proxy for seawater pH, yet it remains unclear if and how this proxy is affected by seawater temperature. Specifically, it has never been directly tested whether coral bleaching caused by high water temperatures influences coral boron isotopes....

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Main Authors: Verena Schoepf, Malcolm T McCulloch, Mark E Warner, Stephen J Levas, Yohei Matsui, Matthew D Aschaffenburg, Andréa G Grottoli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4232377?pdf=render