WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 1.3.2 - Climate Change Reef Calcification
The overall objectives of this project are to understand how corals, the key ecosystem engineers on tropical reefs, have adapted and will respond in the future to the extreme variations in physical (e.g. light, temperature, water motion) and chemical (e.g. pCO2, oxygen, and nutrients) conditions characteristic of the Kimberley coastal region.
Through a series of field and laboratory experiments, we aimed to:
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Study seasonal calcification rates of common Kimberley corals over two years;
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Assess their thermal tolerance and establish the first bleaching thresholds for this region; and
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Reconstruct their resilience to historical climate and environmental extremes using geochemical proxies in coral cores.
Data stored on Pawsey Data Store and UWA IRDS store. The raw data from the 2017 paper are also archived in the Pangaea database.
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Additional information
| Date (revision) | 2018-03-12 |
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| Status | onGoing |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | *All users must acknowledge the source of the material with the acknowledgment*: "Data sourced from Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) project funded by Western Australian State Government and research partners and carried out by <insert authors> from <insert organisations>" |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-05 |
| Created | 2026-11-05 |
| API | package_show |