Investigation on coral necrosis in massive <i>Porites</i> colony in the Mouth of Todoroki river, Ishigaki Island, Japan deduced from the δ<sup>18</sup>O, δ<sup>13</sup>C and Mn/Ca ratios

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  • KAWASHIMA Tatsunori
    Department of Natural History Science, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
  • WATANABE Tsuyoshi
    Department of Natural History Science, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
  • SHIRAI Kotaro
    International Coastal Research Center, Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo
  • MAEKAWA Satoshi
    WWF Coral Reef Research and conservation centre
  • SHIMAMURA Michiyo
    Department of Natural History Science, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute
  • IRINO Tomohisa
    Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University
  • SANO Yuji
    Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo

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  • 酸素・炭素安定同位体比・Mn/Ca比を用いた石垣島轟川河口付近のハマサンゴの壊死研究
  • 酸素・炭素安定同位体比・Mn/Ca比を用いた石垣島ハマサンゴの壊死研究
  • サンソ タンソ アンテイ ドウイタイヒ Mn Caヒ オ モチイタ イシガキジマ ハマサンゴ ノ エシ ケンキュウ

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Abstract

Coral reefs are increasingly faced to the crisis of decline and death caused by climate changes and anthropogenic influence. These crises were reported in Shiraho coral reefs, the Ishigaki Island, Southwestern Japan, caused by the red soils runoff through the Todoroki River. In order to evaluate the influence of terrestrial inputs on coral skeletal growth and coral death, we have analyzed oxygen and carbon isotopic ratios, as well as Mn/Ca ratio, of coral Porites, skeleton collected from Shiraho reef. The coral colony used in this study was still alive but partly dead when the samples were recovered in 20th September 2006. Oxygen isotopic profile of necrosis part indicates that the death may have occurred in winter 2005 when a strongly positive peak of Mn/Ca ratio was observed in the same growth layer of living part, suggesting that increased terrestrial input during sugar cane harvest and closed water system during lower tide level in winter are a possible cause of coral necrosis in the Shiraho coral reefs.

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  • Chikyukagaku

    Chikyukagaku 43 (1), 35-42, 2009-03-30

    The Geochemical Society of Japan

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