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Figure 1: Latitudinal distributions of Holocene calcium-carbonate accumulation rates and types (shading indicates the relative importance of coral-algal communities), compared with temperature, surface-water aragonite saturation ratio7 and photosynthetically active surface radiation (400-700 nm)8.

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Buddemeier, R. Making light work of adaptation. Nature 388, 229–230 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/40755

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