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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-2867-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-2867-2013
Research article
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02 May 2013
Research article |  | 02 May 2013

A new conceptual model of coral biomineralisation: hypoxia as the physiological driver of skeletal extension

S. Wooldridge

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