Lesion healing on massive Porites spp. corals
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Contrasting Lesion Dynamics of White Syndrome among the scleractinian corals Porites spp
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عنوان ژورنال: Marine Ecology Progress Series
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0171-8630,1616-1599
DOI: 10.3354/meps164213