Retrograde Accretion of a Caribbean Fringing Reef Controlled by Hurricanes and Sea-level Rise
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Unidad de Sistemas Arrecifales (Puerto Morelos), Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cancun, Mexico, Churchill College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3 Lab. de Estudios Isotópicos, Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, Mexico, Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, Tlalpan, Mexico, 5 Secretaría de Marina, Dirección General Adjunta de Oceanografía, Hidrografía y Meteorología, Coyoacán, Mexico
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