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SUBMITTER: Lauchstedt A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5585234 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170905 1
Global mean temperature is thought to have exceeded that of today during the last interglacial episode (LIG, ~ 125,000 yrs b.p.) but robust paleoclimate data are still rare in low latitudes. Occurrence data of tropical reef corals may provide new proxies of low latitude sea-surface temperatures. Using modern reef coral distributions we developed a geographically explicit model of sea surface temperatures. Applying this model to coral occurrence data of the LIG provides a latitudinal U-shaped pat ...[more]