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Thanks to the Smithsonian Marine Science Network and a Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program grant to Rikki Grober-Dunsmore for making our travel possible. This is contribution # 623 of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce.

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    Raphael Ritson-Williams & Valerie J. Paul

  2. Votua Village, PO Box 136, Korolevu, Fiji Islands, South Pacific

    Victor Bonito

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Ritson-Williams, R., Paul, V.J. & Bonito, V. Marine benthic cyanobacteria overgrow coral reef organisms. Coral Reefs 24, 629 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-005-0059-4

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