Climate variability and change on the Great Barrier Reef

Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 269-300

  Lough, Janice M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

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EID: 79960966840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420041675     Document Type: Chapter

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