Abstract. The Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia has a long history of palaeoenvironmental coral research. However, it can be logistically difficult to find the relevant research and records, which are often unpublished or exist as ‘grey literature’. This hinders researchers’ ability to efficiently assess the current state of coral core studies on the GBR and thus identify any key knowledge gaps. This study presents the Great Barrier Reef Coral Skeletal Records Database (GBRCD), which compiles 208 records from coral skeletal research conducted since the early 1990s. The database includes records from the Holocene, from ~8,000 years ago, to the present day; from the northern, central, and southern GBR from inshore and offshore locations. Massive Porites spp. coral records comprise the majority (92.5 %) of the database, and the remaining records are from Acropora, Isopora or Cyphastrea spp. The database includes 78 variables, with Sr/Ca, U/Ca and Ba/Ca the most frequently measured. Most records measure data over 10 or more years and are at monthly or lower resolution. The GBRCD is machine readable and easily searchable so users can find records relevant to their research, for example, by filtering for site names, time period, or coral type. It is publicly available as comma-separated values (CSV) data and metadata files with entries linked by the unique record ID and as Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) files. The GBRCD is publicly available from the NOAA National Center for Environmental Information’s Paleoclimate Data Archive at https://doi.org/10.25921/hqxk-8h74 (Arzey et al. 2024). The collection and curation of existing GBR coral research provides researchers with the ability to analyse common proxies such as Sr/Ca across multiple locations and/or examine regional to reef scale trends. The database is also suitable for multi-proxy comparisons and combination or composite analyses to determine overarching changes recorded by the proxies. This database represents the first comprehensive compilation of coral records from the GBR. It enables the investigation of multiple environmental factors via various proxy systems for the GBR, northeastern Australia and potentially the broader Indo-Pacific.

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澳大利亚大堡礁珊瑚骨骼代理记录数据库

摘要。澳大利亚大堡礁（GBR）拥有悠久的古环境珊瑚研究历史。然而，从逻辑上讲，找到相关的研究和记录可能很困难，这些研究和记录通常未发表或作为“灰色文献”存在。这阻碍了研究人员有效评估大堡礁珊瑚核心研究现状的能力，从而识别任何关键的知识差距。本研究介绍了大堡礁珊瑚骨骼记录数据库 (GBRCD)，该数据库汇集了自 20 世纪 90 年代初以来进行的珊瑚骨骼研究的 208 条记录。该数据库包含从大约 8,000 年前至今的全新世记录；来自大堡礁北部、中部和南部的近海和近海地点。大型滨珊瑚属 ( Massive Porites)珊瑚记录占数据库的大部分（92.5%），其余记录来自鹿角珊瑚（Acropora）、等孢珊瑚（Isopora）或Cyphastrea spp。该数据库包括 78 个变量，其中 Sr/Ca、U/Ca 和 Ba/Ca 是最常测量的。大多数记录测量 10 年或更长时间的数据，并且分辨率为月度或更低。 GBRCD 是机器可读且易于搜索的，因此用户可以找到与其研究相关的记录，例如，通过过滤站点名称、时间段或珊瑚类型。它以逗号分隔值 (CSV) 数据和元数据文件的形式公开提供，其中包含由唯一记录 ID 链接的条目以及链接古数据 (LiPD) 文件。 GBRCD 可从 NOAA 国家环境信息中心的古气候数据档案库公开获取：https://doi.org/10.25921/hqxk-8h74（Arzey 等人，2024）。现有大堡礁珊瑚研究的收集和管理使研究人员能够分析多个地点的常见指标（例如 Sr/Ca）和/或检查区域到珊瑚礁规模的趋势。该数据库还适用于多代理比较和组合或综合分析，以确定代理记录的总体变化。该数据库是大堡礁珊瑚记录的第一个综合汇编。它可以通过各种代理系统对大堡礁、澳大利亚东北部以及可能更广泛的印度-太平洋地区的多种环境因素进行调查。