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SUBMITTER: Bastos AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6018419 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bastos Alex C AC Moura Rodrigo L RL Moraes Fernando C FC Vieira Laura S LS Braga Juan Carlos JC Ramalho Laís V LV Amado-Filho Gilberto M GM Magdalena Ulises R UR Webster Jody M JM
Scientific reports 20180625 1
In major modern reef regions, either in the Indo-Pacific or the Caribbean, scleractinian corals are described as the main reef framework builders, often associated with crustose coralline algae. We used underwater cores to investigate Late Holocene reef growth and characterise the main framework builders in the Abrolhos Shelf, the largest and richest modern tropical reef complex in the South Western Atlantic, a scientifically underexplored reef province. Rather than a typical coralgal reef, our ...[more]