Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-333-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-333-2014
Research article
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28 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 28 Jan 2014

Photosynthetic activity buffers ocean acidification in seagrass meadows

I. E. Hendriks, Y. S. Olsen, L. Ramajo, L. Basso, A. Steckbauer, T. S. Moore, J. Howard, and C. M. Duarte

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