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A new record for a massive Porites colony at Ta’u Island, American Samoa
An exceptionally large, hermatypic colony of Porites sp. has been identified and measured at Ta’u, American Samoa. This coral was measured in November 2019 as part of an effort to catalogue all large (≥ 2 m diameter) Porites colonies around Ta’u. Colonies exceeding 10 m in diameter were recorded on...
Autores principales: | Coward, Georgia, Lawrence, Alice, Ripley, Natasha, Brown, Valerie, Sudek, Mareike, Brown, Eric, Moffitt, Ian, Fuiava, Bert, Vargas-Ángel, Bernardo |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33288847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77776-7 |
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