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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10961-3
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [KI806/12-1]
- Australian Research Council [DP130100250]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) within the funding program Open Access Publishing
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Global mean temperature is thought to have exceeded that of today during the last interglacial episode (LIG, similar to 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 pattern of temperature anomalies with cooler than modern temperatures around the equator and warmer subtropical climes. Our results agree with previously published estimates of LIG temperatures and suggest a poleward broadening of the habitable zone for reef corals during the LIG.
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