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Furnas, M., Schaffelke, B. & David McKinnon, A. Selective Evidence of Eutrophication in the Great Barrier Reef: Comment on Bell et al. (2014). AMBIO 43, 377–378 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-013-0471-x
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