Reefs under Siege—the Rise, Putative Drivers, and Consequences of Benthic Cyanobacterial Mats
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1 Ecology Department, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany, 2 Faculty of Biology and Chemistry (FB2), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 3 EPHE, PSL Research University, UPVD-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, USR3278 CRIOBE, Perpignan, France, 4 Labex Corail, CRIOBE, Moorea, French Polynesia, 5 Department of Freshwater and Marine Ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 6 School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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