Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the broad-leaved paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall
We thank the Minjerribah Moorgumpin elders, in particular Aunty Marg, for permission to undertake research on North Stradbroke Island. Joanna Blessing, Sarah Lindermann, Norbert Menke, Patrick Moss, Tim Page, Lynda Petherick, Peter Negus, Penny Rogers, Melanie Shaw, Bill Senior and Craig Sloss provided assistance in the field. We would also like to thank Paul Smith for all his assistance with our research on North Stradbroke Island and John Ferris for Brown Lake dissolved oxygen data. Christine Crothers drew Fig. a,b. Ross (Stan) Mitchell undertook the spatial analysis presented in Fig. Chris Kendrick undertook the isotope analyses. This manuscript was improved by the comments of two anonymous reviewers. This project was funded by Australian Research Council (ARC) grants LP34106364 (with co-investment from The Queensland Government and Sibelco Australia) and DP150103875, an ARC Future Fellowship (FT110100793) and Discovery Project (DP130104314) held by FAM and a University of Adelaide interdisciplinary research fund grant to FAM, JT, JJT and CB.
Geography, Environment and Population, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Sprigg Geobiology Centre, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Department of Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; School of Geography, Politics & Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities, British Geological Survey, Keyworth Nottingham, United Kingdom; Centre for Environmental Geochemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom; Griffith School of Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Queensland Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Tibby J.,Barr C.,McInerney F.A.,et al. Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the broad-leaved paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall[J]. Global Change Biology,2016-01-01,22(10)