Confronting the coral reef crisis

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2004-06-24

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature02691PMID 15215854
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