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

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.