Coral evolution

Hay ME (1997) The ecology and evolution of seaweed-herbivore interactions on coral reefs. Coral Reefs 16 S67-S76. 

Because of differences in chemical properties of U, Th, and Pa, the elements are fractionated in many geochemical processes, such as sedimentation, mantle partial melting, and coral precipitation from water. With fractionation, the nuclide activities of Th, and Pa do not equal one another. Define the time of disturbance to be time zero. Use hi, A2, and A3 to denote the decay activity of Th, and Pa, respectively, and Xy X2, and X3 to denote the decay constants of Th, and Pa. Start from the full evolution equation for Pa in Box 2-6,... 

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Duffy, J.E., Resource-associated population subdivision in a symbiotic coral-reef shrimp, Evolution, 50, 360, 1996. 

Pijl L. van der and Dodson C. H. (1966) Orchid Flowers Their Pollination and Evolution. University of Miami Press, Coral Gables, FL. 

Beach D.K. (1982) Depositional and diagenetic history of Pleiocene-Pleistocene carbonates of northwestern Great Bahama bank Evolution of a carbonate platform. Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. 

Collins L. B., Zhu Z. R., Wyrwoll K. H., Hatcher B. G., Playford P. E., Chen J. H., Eisenhauer A., and Wasserburg G. J. (1993a) Late Quaternary evolution of coral reefs on a cool-water carbonate margin the AbroUios carbonate platforms, Southwest Australia. Mar. Geol. 110, 203-212. 

Institute of Molecular Evolution and Department of Biochemistry, University of Miami, Coral Cables, Florida... 

D.F. Gleason (2001). Ultraviolet radiation and coral communities. In C.S. Cockell, A.R. Blaustein (Eds), Ecosystems, Evolution and Ultraviolet Radiation (pp. 118-149). Springer-Verlag, New York. 

The principal carbonate minerals are calcite (CaC03), magnesite (MgC03), dolomite [MgCa(C03)2], and siderite (FeC03). Calcite is the principal mineral in limestone and the main constituent of marble, chalk, pearls, coral reefs, and the shells of marine animals such as clams and oysters. Although CaC03 has low solubility in pure water, it dissolves readily in acidic solutions with evolution of CO2 ... 

Aleksander T. Przybylski and Sidney W. Fox Institute for Molecular and Cellular Evolution, University of Miami, 521 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables, Florida 33134. 

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