How accessible are coral reefs to people? A global assessment based on travel time.

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2016-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/ele.12577PMID 26879898
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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