High sedimentary oxygen consumption indicates that sewage input from small islands drives benthic community shifts on overfished reefs
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High sedimentary oxygen consumption indicates that sewage input from small islands drives benthic community shifts on overfished reefs
THEMATIC SECTION Humans and Island Environments High sedimentary oxygen consumption indicates that sewage input from small islands drives benthic community shifts on overfished reefs AMANDA K. FORD ∗1 , 2 , N ANNE VAN HO YT EM A 1 , 2 , BRADLEY R. MOORE 3 , LI N A PA N D I H A U 4 , CHRISTIAN WILD 2 AND SEBASTIAN C. A. FERSE 1 1Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Fahrenheitstrass...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Conservation
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0376-8929,1469-4387
DOI: 10.1017/s0376892917000054