Overwintering tropical herbivores accelerate detritus production on temperate reefs
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2046