Paradise lost: How marine science failed the world's coral reefs

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 831-837

  Risk, Michael J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0033395160     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF99067     Document Type: Review

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