How Life History Characteristics and Environmental Forcing Shape Settlement Success of Coral Reef Fishes
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1 Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, 2 Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, United States, 3 Department of Biology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, 4 Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, 5 Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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