Herbivory by crabs and the control of algal epibionts on Caribbean host corals

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• Publication year

  1988

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  1988-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/BF00378597PMID 28310834
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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