Linking reef ecology to island-building: Parrotfish identified as major producers of island-building sediment in the Maldives

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Geology

• Publication date

  2015-06-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1130/G36623.1
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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