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WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 1.3.2 - Climate Change Reef Calcification

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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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:

Study seasonal calcification rates of common Kimberley corals over two years;

Assess their thermal tolerance and establish the first bleaching thresholds for this region; and

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 Info

Field Value
Title WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 1.3.2 - Climate Change Reef Calcification
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/63aa4a08-60f5-4ce9-be59-cd147cfba246
Remote Last Updated 26/05/2022
Contact Point
Western Australian Marine Science Institution
malcolm.mcculloch@uwa.edu.au
Reference Period 03/05/2018
Geospatial Coverage
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Data Portal Western Australia Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 1.3.2 - Climate Change Reef Calcification". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/wamsi-2-kimberley-node-1-3-2-climate-change-reef-calcification_a866