Damselfish as Keystone Species in Reverse: Intermediate Disturbance and Diversity of Reef Algae

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• Publication year

  1983

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1983-04-29

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.220.4596.511PMID 17816223
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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