Articles | Volume 12, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4209-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4209-2015
Research article
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17 Jul 2015
Research article |  | 17 Jul 2015

Impact of seawater carbonate chemistry on the calcification of marine bivalves

J. Thomsen, K. Haynert, K. M. Wegner, and F. Melzner

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