Extreme spatial heterogeneity in carbonate accretion potential on a Caribbean fringing reef linked to local human disturbance gradients
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Retrograde Accretion of a Caribbean Fringing Reef Controlled by Hurricanes and Sea-level Rise
Unidad de Sistemas Arrecifales (Puerto Morelos), Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cancun, Mexico, Churchill College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3 Lab. de Estudios Isotópicos, Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, Mexico, Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, Tlalpan, Mexico, 5 Se...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Change Biology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1354-1013,1365-2486
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14800