Shifting Baselines, Local Impacts, and Global Change on Coral Reefs

Overview

Journal PLoS Biol

Specialty Biology

Date 2008 Feb 29

PMID 18303956

Citations 137

Authors

Nancy Knowlton

Jeremy B C Jackson

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