Near-shore Antarctic pH variability has implications for the design of ocean acidification experiments

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hofmann, Gretchen ^a   Kelley, Amanda L ^a   Shaw, Emily C ^b   Martz, Todd R ^c   Hofmann, Gretchen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84928136238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09638     Document Type: Article

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