Coral reef sedimentation on Rodrigues and the Western Indian Ocean and its impact on the carbon cycle

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1826, 2005, Pages 101-120

  Rees, Siwan A ^a   Opdyke, Bradley N ^b   Wilson, Paul A ^a   Fifield, L Keith ^c  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Building 47   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Coral reef; Indian Ocean; Rodrigues

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244338032     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1481     Document Type: Article

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