Re-evaluating the health of coral reef communities: baselines and evidence for human impacts across the central Pacific

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2016-01-13

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2015.1985PMID 26740615PMCID PMC4721084
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