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The global flood protection savings provided by coral reefs

Coral reefs can provide significant coastal protection benefits to people and property. Here we show that the annual expected damages from flooding would double, and costs from frequent storms would triple without reefs. For 100-year storm events, flood damages would increase by 91% to $US 272 billi...

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Publicado en:Nat Commun
Main Authors: Beck, Michael W., Losada, Iñigo J., Menéndez, Pelayo, Reguero, Borja G., Díaz-Simal, Pedro, Fernández, Felipe
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5997709/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29895942
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04568-z
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