Intense benthic grazing on phytoplankton in coral reefs revealed using the control volume approach

Oceanography

Volumn 15, Issue SPL.ISS. 2, 2002, Pages 90-96

  Genin, Amatzia ^a   Yahel, Gitai ^a   Reidenbach, Matthew A ^b   Monismith, Stephen G ^b   Koseff, Jeffrey R ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0041810734     PISSN: 10428275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2002.25     Document Type: Article

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