Ecology: A Different Route to Recovery for Coral Reefs

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Gunderson, Lance ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; SHORT SURVEY;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33845868208     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.11.034     Document Type: Short Survey

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