Sex-associated variations in coral skeletal oxygen and carbon isotopic  composition of <i>Porites panamensis</i> in the southern Gulf of California

Cabral-Tena, Rafael A.; Sánchez, Alberto; Reyes-Bonilla, Héctor; Ruvalcaba-Díaz, Angel H.; Balart, Eduardo F.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2675-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2675-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2675-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 9

Research article

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10 May 2016

Research article |

| 10 May 2016

Sex-associated variations in coral skeletal oxygen and carbon isotopic composition of Porites panamensis in the southern Gulf of California

Rafael A. Cabral-Tena, Alberto Sánchez, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla, Angel H. Ruvalcaba-Díaz, and Eduardo F. Balart

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RC C8405: 'Review Cabral-Tena et al', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Dec 2015
RC C8854: 'Comment for Cabral-Tena et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Jan 2016
AC C9839: 'Responses to referee #1', Eduardo Balart, 18 Feb 2016
AC C9850: 'Responses to comments of Referee #2', Eduardo Balart, 18 Feb 2016

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (19 Feb 2016) by S. Wajih A. Naqvi

AR by Eduardo Balart on behalf of the Authors (31 Mar 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (04 Apr 2016) by S. Wajih A. Naqvi

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (06 Apr 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (18 Apr 2016) by S. Wajih A. Naqvi

AR by Eduardo Balart on behalf of the Authors (26 Apr 2016) Manuscript

Short summary

Coral growth rate is known to influence the δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C isotope record to a lesser extent. Recent published data show differences in growth parameters between female and male coral; thus, skeletal δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C are hypothesized to be different in each sex. Our results support the hypothesis of a sex-associated difference in skeletal δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C signal, and suggest that environmental conditions and coral growth parameters affect skeletal isotopic signal differently in each sex.