Australia’s marine resources in a warm, acid ocean

Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a Hot World

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 84-100

  Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a   Poloczanska, Elvira ^b   Richardson, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203370476-14     Document Type: Chapter

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