Carbon turnover and accumulation by coral reefs
High-precision measurements of changes in oxygen and various parameters of the CO2 system in sea water were used to monitor community metabolism in four Pacific coral reef systems. The reefs studied were One Tree Island and Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu Island, Hawaii and Johnston Island in the central Pacific Ocean.
This research was undertaken to gain further understanding of carbon fluxes through coral reef systems at an operational level.
Data was collected during November 1961 at Heron Island, and during September- November, 1967 at One Tree Island.
Data and resources
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Kinsey DW Kinsey E (1967) Diurnal changes in oxygen content of the water over the coral reef platform at Heron I. Marine and Freshwater Research 18, 23-34.…HTML Open
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Kinsey DW (1985) Metabolism, calcification and carbon production. I. System level studies. 4: 503-542. Proceedings of the 5th International Coral Reef Congress,…HTML Open
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Lewis JB, Gladfelter EH and Kinsey DW (1985) Metabolism, calcification and carbon production - seminer discussion. 4: 540-542. Proceedings of the Fifth…HTML Open
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Reef metabolism: Barnes DJ, Chalker BE and Kinsey DW (1986) Reef metabolism. Oceanus 29: 20-26.HTML Open
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Additional information
| Date (revision) | 2026-10-24 |
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| Status | completed |
| Update frequency | notPlanned |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-05 |
| Created | 2026-11-05 |
| API | package_show |