Predators help protect carbon stocks in blue carbon ecosystems

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Nature Climate Change

• Publication date

  2015-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/NCLIMATE2763
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