Global warming and widespread coral mortality: Evidence of first coral reef extinctions

Saving a Million Species: Extinction Risk from Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 103-119

  Glynn, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-182-5_7     Document Type: Chapter

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