Coral reefs maintain extraordinary biodiversity and provide protection from tsunamis and
storm surge, but inshore coral reef health is degrading in many regions due to deteriorating …

With predictions that mass coral bleaching will occur annually within this century,
conservation efforts must focus their limited resources based on an accurate understanding …

Ecological data sets rarely extend back more than a few decades, limiting our understanding
of environmental change and its drivers. Marine historical ecology has played a critical role …

The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor
resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non …

Despite great international interest and progress in recovering coral-based palaeoclimate
records, there are surprisingly few records for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), particularly for …

Global coral reefs are currently facing widespread declines in calcification rates, a trend that
underscores the need to understand variations between calcification in contemporary and …

The 4.2 ka BP Event is an abrupt climate change that might have contributed to the collapse
of ancient civilizations and marks the transition between the mid‐and late‐Holocene …

The rarity of Pongo fossils with precise absolute dating from the Middle Pleistocene hampers
our understanding of the taxonomy and spatiotemporal distribution of Quaternary …

Hard coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is on a trajectory of decline. However, little
is known about past coral mortality before the advent of long-term monitoring (circa 1980s) …

Accurate radiocarbon dating of marine samples requires knowledge of the marine
radiocarbon reservoir effect. This effect for a particular site/region is generally assumed …