A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2008-02-15

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.1149345PMID 18276889
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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