COMPUTERIZED-TOMOGRAPHY AND OXYGEN STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF PORITES LUTEA SKELETON AT MURUROA (FRENCH-POLYNESIA) - APPLICATION TO THESTUDY OF SOLAR-RADIATION INFLUENCE ON ANNUAL CORAL GROWTH

Authors
BESSAT F BOISEAU M JUILLETLECLERC A BUIGUES D SALVAT B
Citation
F. Bessat et al., COMPUTERIZED-TOMOGRAPHY AND OXYGEN STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF PORITES LUTEA SKELETON AT MURUROA (FRENCH-POLYNESIA) - APPLICATION TO THESTUDY OF SOLAR-RADIATION INFLUENCE ON ANNUAL CORAL GROWTH, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 3, Sciences de la vie, 320(8), 1997, pp. 659-665
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 3, Sciences de la vie → ACNP
ISSN journal
07644469
Volume
320
Issue
8
Year of publication
1997
Pages
659 - 665
Database
ISI
SICI code
0764-4469(1997)320:8<659:CAOSIC>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
We have analysed samples of the scleractinian coral Porites lutea from Mururoa by computerized tomography, a method that appears more reliab le than classic measurements of coral density. We correlate density me asurements with oxygen isotopic composition, and then with climatologi cal parameters (sea surface temperature and solar radiation). Wk demon strate that at the Mururoa site, solar radiation is the major factor i nfluencing the density pattern of the coral skeleton (i.e. calcificati on). However, the relationship between the density pattern and radiati on is neither simple nor linear.