Heavy metal toxicity to microbe-mediated ecologic processes: a review and potential application to regulatory policies.

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• Publication year

  1985

• Venue

  Environmental Research

• Publication date

  1985-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/0013-9351(85)90011-8PMID 3917912
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