Dissolved organic carbon fluxes by seagrass meadows and macroalgal beds
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Cristina Barrón*, Eugenia T. Apostolaki and Carlos M. Duarte 1 Griffith School of Environment, Australian Rivers Institute-Coast and Estuaries, and Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 2 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, Heraklion, Greece 3 Department of Global Change Research, Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universitat de les Illes Balears, Esporles, Spain 4 Faculty of Marine Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 5 School of Plant Biology, The UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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تاریخ انتشار 2014