Long-term records of coral calcification across the central Great Barrier Reef: assessing the impacts of river runoff and climate change

d'Olivo, Juan; McCulloch, Malcolm; Judd, K

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Long-term records of coral calcification across the central Great Barrier Reef: assessing the impacts of river runoff and climate change

Date

2013

Authors

d'Olivo, Juan

McCulloch, Malcolm

Judd, K

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

Calcification rates are reported for 41 long-lived Porites corals from 7 reefs, in an inshore to offshore transect across the central Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Over multi-decadal timescales, corals in the mid-shelf (1947-2008) and outer reef (1952-2004) r