Unforeseen importance of historical collections as baselines to determine biotic change of coral reefs: the Saba Bank case
Botanical and zoological collections may serve as archives for historical ecological research on the effects of global change and human impact on coral reef biota. Museum collections may harbour old specimens of reef-dwelling species that have become locally extinct. Such collections also help to de...
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Wiley
2011
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