Articles | Volume 20, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1587-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1587-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Massive corals record deforestation in Malaysian Borneo through sediments in river discharge
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
Arnoud Boom
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
Matthew Payne
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
Nicola Browne
Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
Curtin Malaysia Research Institute, Curtin University Malaysia, Miri, 98009, Malaysia
Noreen J. Evans
School of Earth and Planetary Sciences/John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
Philip Holdship
School of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, Oxford, OX1 2JD, United Kingdom
Kai Rankenburg
School of Earth and Planetary Sciences/John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
Ramasamy Nagarajan
Department of Applied Sciences (Applied Geology), Curtin University Malaysia, Miri, 98009, Malaysia
Curtin Malaysia Research Institute, Curtin University Malaysia, Miri, 98009, Malaysia
Bradley J. McDonald
School of Earth and Planetary Sciences/John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
Jennifer McIlwain
Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
Curtin Malaysia Research Institute, Curtin University Malaysia, Miri, 98009, Malaysia
Jens Zinke
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
Curtin Malaysia Research Institute, Curtin University Malaysia, Miri, 98009, Malaysia
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Short summary
In this study, we tested the ability of massive boulder-like corals to act as archives of land use in Malaysian Borneo to palliate the lack of accurate instrumental data on deforestation before the 1980s. We used mass spectrometry to measure trace element ratios in coral cores to use as a proxy for sediment in river discharge. Results showed an extremely similar increase between our proxy and the river discharge instrumental record, demonstrating the use of these corals as reliable archives.
In this study, we tested the ability of massive boulder-like corals to act as archives of land...
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