Deep coral growth in the Mediterranean Sea: an overview

M Taviani, A Freiwald, H Zibrowius - Cold-water corals and ecosystems, 2005 - Springer
The Mediterranean basin represents an excellent biological archive of past and modern
deep coral growth whose study may help to understand taxonomic, biogeographic …

Li/Mg systematics in scleractinian corals: Calibration of the thermometer

P Montagna, M McCulloch, E Douville… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
We show that the Li/Mg systematics of a large suite of aragonitic coral skeletons,
representing a wide range of species inhabiting disparate environments, provides a robust …

Stable Sr-isotope, Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca, Li/Ca and Mg/Li ratios in the scleractinian cold-water coral lophelia pertusa

J Raddatz, V Liebetrau, A Rüggeberg, E Hathorne… - Chemical …, 2013 - Elsevier
The aragonitic skeletons of scleractinian cold-water corals can serve as valuable archives in
paleoceanographic studies. The potential of δ 88/86 Sr, Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca, Li/Ca and Mg/Li …

Stable strontium isotopes (δ88/86Sr) in cold-water corals—a new proxy for reconstruction of intermediate ocean water temperatures

A Rüggeberg, J Fietzke, V Liebetrau… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals are known as archives for temporal variations of climate
variables, such as sea surface temperature, salinity or productivity. The use of …

Constraining past environmental changes of cold‐water coral mounds with geochemical proxies in corals and foraminifera

J Raddatz, A Rüggeberg - The Depositional Record, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cold‐water coral (CWC) reefs and mounds are and have been biodiversity hotspots of the
deep sea. As their occurrence depends on specific environmental parameters, gaining …

Mediterranean corals through time: from Miocene to Present

A Vertino, J Stolarski, FR Bosellini… - The Mediterranean Sea: Its …, 2014 - Springer
Stony corals, especially scleractinians, are a recurrent component of the benthic fauna of the
Mediterranean basin and its Mesozoic-to-Cenozoic precursors. Both morphological and …

A biological origin for climate signals in corals—Trace element “vital effects” are ubiquitous in Scleractinian coral skeletons

DJ Sinclair, B Williams, M Risk - Geophysical Research Letters, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Laser ablation ICP/MS was used to analyze Mg, Sr and U at fine (hundreds of microns) and
seasonal spatial scales in the reef coral Porites and the non‐photosynthetic “deep‐sea” …

Compositional variability in a cold‐water scleractinian, Lophelia pertusa: New insights into “vital effects”

AL Cohen, GA Gaetani, T Lundälv… - Geochemistry …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We analyzed Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios in the thecal wall of Lophelia pertusa, a cold‐water
coral, using SIMS ion microprobe techniques. The wall grows by simultaneous upward …

[HTML][HTML] Geochemical proxies for deep-sea temperature and nutrient content in cold-water bamboo corals

TJ Williams, CD Standish, P Archambault, JA Godbold… - Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
The impact of warming, acidification, and deoxygenation on deep-sea environments is a
growing concern. Historical records are sparse, particularly at high latitudes, making climate …

Environmental boundary conditions of cold-water coral mound growth over the last 3 million years in the Porcupine Seabight, Northeast Atlantic

J Raddatz, A Rüggeberg, V Liebetrau, A Foubert… - Deep Sea Research …, 2014 - Elsevier
IODP Expedition 307 made it for the first time possible to investigate the entire body of a cold-
water coral carbonate mound. Here we provide new insights into the long-term history of …