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A crown-of-thorns outbreak in the eastern Indonesian Archipelago, February 1996

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Lane, D.J.W. A crown-of-thorns outbreak in the eastern Indonesian Archipelago, February 1996. Coral Reefs 15, 209–210 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01787452

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