Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01959-x
Title: Sub-annual fluorescence measurements of coral skeleton: relationship between skeletal luminescence and terrestrial humic-like substances
Authors: Kaushal, N
Yang, L
Tanzil, JTI 
Lee, JN
Goodkin, NF
Martin, P 
Keywords: Fluorescent dissolved organic matter
Coral luminescence
Humic-like substances
EEM
Terrigenous dissolved organic matter
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Citation: Kaushal, N, Yang, L, Tanzil, JTI, Lee, JN, Goodkin, NF, Martin, P (2020-01-01). Sub-annual fluorescence measurements of coral skeleton: relationship between skeletal luminescence and terrestrial humic-like substances. Coral Reefs. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01959-x
Abstract: © 2020, The Author(s). Some massive coral core slices reveal luminescent bands under ultraviolet light, which have been attributed to terrestrial humic acids in the skeleton. Coral luminescence has therefore been used to reconstruct past climate and hydrological variability. However, it has remained unresolved how closely coral luminescence at sub-annual resolution is related to terrestrial humic acid concentrations. This study presents a solution-based fluorescence method to quantify terrestrial humic substances in less than 4 mg of coral powder. The results show that in corals from Malaysia and Singapore, the luminescence green-to-blue ratio is correlated with skeletal concentrations of terrestrial humic substances (R2 > 0.40, p < 0.001) at two sites that are exposed to terrestrial dissolved organic matter from peatlands on Sumatra. In contrast, coral cores from two other sites located far from major terrestrial organic matter sources show lower green-to-blue values and no convincing correlation with fluorescence intensity of terrestrial humic substances in the skeleton. Abiogenic aragonite precipitation experiments with both terrestrial and marine organic matter sources confirmed that terrestrial humic substances are readily incorporated into aragonite, but not fluorescent organic matter from marine sources. The results of this study suggest that in coral cores with high luminescence green-to-blue ratios (> 0.6) and large downcore variability (range of ≥ 0.05), the green-to-blue ratio is strongly linked to variation in terrestrial humic substances. Coral cores therefore have the potential to reconstruct past variation in terrigenous dissolved organic carbon fluxes.
Source Title: Coral Reefs
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/171743
ISSN: 07224028
14320975
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-020-01959-x
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