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Cold tolerance of subtropical Porites lutea from the northern South China Sea
Marginal scleractinian corals growing at their latitudinal limits should be quite sensitive to variations in winter sea surface temperatures (SSTs). An extreme cold event occurring in early 2008 offered a uniq...
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Testing coral paleothermometers (B/Ca, Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, U/Ca and δ 18O) under impacts of large riverine runoff
Sea surface temperature (SST) proxies including B/Ca, Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, U/Ca and δ 18O were analyzed in the skeleton of a Porites coral collected from the Zhujiang River (Pearl River) ...
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Twenty-five years of change in scleractinian coral communities of Daya Bay (northern South China Sea) and its response to the 2008 AD extreme cold climate event
Coral reefs worldwide are becoming increasingly and detrimentally impacted upon by a variety of factors including significant climate changes, such as global warming and increased El Nino-Southern Oscillation ...
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Temporal variations of heavy metals in coralPorites lutea from Guangdong Province, China: Influences from industrial pollution, climate and economic factors
The eight heavy metals Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb have been determined in samples of coralPorites lutea collected from Dafangji Island waters (21°21′N, 111°11′E), Dianbai County, Guangdong Province, China...
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High-frequency climatic oscillations recorded in a Holocene coral reef at Leizhou Peninsula, South China Sea
A detailed study of the Goniopora reef profile at Dengloujiao, Xuwen County, Leizhou Peninsula, the northern coast of the South China Sea suggests that a series of high-frequency, large-amplitude and abrupt cold ...
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A prediction of sea level rising amplitude in 2030 and defensive countermeasures in the Zhujiang delta
By analysing comprehensively the factors such as theoretical sea level, abnormal fluctuation of sea level, rising amplitude of floodtide water level and land deformation, a rising amplitude of 22-33 cm of rela...
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The UV induced fluorescence inPorites coral from Hainan Island, China and its paleo-environmental implications
Porites coral in the nearshore waters off Hainan Island can give off yellowish-green fluorescence under UV laser induction. After fitting the data between rainfall and fluorescent intensity, it c...
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Reconstruction of sea surface temperature series in the last 220 years by use of reef corals in **sha waters, South China Sea
On the basis of construction of the growth rate thermometers by use ofPorites Iutea from the northern part of the South China Sea and the hindcast sea surface temperature (SST) in the last 100 years, we reconstru...
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Relationship between coral growth rate and sea surface temperature in the northern part of South China Sea during the past 100 a
To research the relationship between coral growth rate and sea surface temperatnre (Tss), 5 cores of livingPorites lutea were collected from the **sha Islands and the southern Hainan Island waters and measured. T...