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Articles | Volume 13, issue 8
Articles | Volume 13, issue 8
Biogeosciences, 13, 2379–2386, 2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2379-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Biogeosciences, 13, 2379–2386, 2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2379-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

Ideas and perspectives 25 Apr 2016

Ideas and perspectives | 25 Apr 2016

Ideas and perspectives: Southwestern tropical Atlantic coral growth response to atmospheric circulation changes induced by ozone depletion in Antarctica

Heitor Evangelista1, Ilana Wainer2, Abdelfettah Sifeddine3,4, Thierry Corrège5, Renato C. Cordeiro3, Saulo Lamounier1, Daniely Godiva1,3, Chuan-Chou Shen6, Florence Le Cornec4, Bruno Turcq4, Claire E. Lazareth4, and Ching-Yi Hu6 Heitor Evangelista et al.
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  • 1LARAMG/IBRAG/Uerj. Pav. HLC, Subsolo, Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, Maracanã – Rio de Janeiro, 20550-013, Brazil
  • 2Universidade de São Paulo – USP/IO/Departamento de Oceanografia Física, Praça do Oceanográfico 191, 05508-120 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
  • 3Departamento de Geoquímica, Instituto de Química – UFF, Outeiro de São João Batista s/n, Centro – Niterói, 24020-007, Brazil
  • 4IRD-Sorbonne Universités (UPMC, Univ Paris 06)-CNRS-MNHN, LOCEAN Laboratory. IRD France-Nord, 32, avenue Henri Varagnat, 93143 Bondy, France
  • 5Université de Bordeaux, UMR CNRS 5805 EPOC, Allée Geoffroy St Hilaire, 33615 Pessac Cedex, France
  • 6High-Precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC), Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan ROC
Received: 17 May 2015 – Discussion started: 17 Aug 2015 – Revised: 12 Mar 2016 – Accepted: 26 Mar 2016 – Published: 25 Apr 2016

Abstract. Recent Southern Hemisphere (SH) atmospheric circulation, predominantly driven by stratospheric ozone depletion over Antarctica, has caused changes in climate across the extratropics. Here, we present evidence that the Brazilian coast (southwestern Atlantic) may have been impacted from both wind and sea-surface temperature changes derived from this process. Skeleton analysis of massive coral species living in shallow waters off Brazil are very sensitive to air–sea interactions, and seem to record this impact. Growth rates of Brazilian corals show a trend reversal that fits the ozone depletion evolution, confirming that ozone impacts are far reaching and potentially affect coastal ecosystems in tropical environments.

How to cite. Evangelista, H., Wainer, I., Sifeddine, A., Corrège, T., Cordeiro, R. C., Lamounier, S., Godiva, D., Shen, C.-C., Le Cornec, F., Turcq, B., Lazareth, C. E., and Hu, C.-Y.: Ideas and perspectives: Southwestern tropical Atlantic coral growth response to atmospheric circulation changes induced by ozone depletion in Antarctica, Biogeosciences, 13, 2379–2386, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2379-2016, 2016.
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Recent Southern Hemisphere (SH) atmospheric circulation, predominantly driven by stratospheric ozone depletion over Antarctica, has caused changes in climate across the extratropics. We present evidence that the Brazilian coast may have been impacted from both wind and sea surface temperature changes derived from this process. Skeleton analysis of massive coral species living in shallow waters off Brazil are very sensitive to air–sea interactions and seem to record this process.
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