Seamounts as refugia from ocean acidification for coldwater stony corals
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1 Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada 2 Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, UK 3 Department of Oceanography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA 4 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, Marine Institute, University of Plymouth, UK 5 LSCE ⁄ IPSL, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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تاریخ انتشار 2010