Taxonomic sufficiency: an overview of its use in the monitoring of sublittoral benthic communities after oil spills.

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Marine Pollution Bulletin

• Publication date

  2003-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/S0025-326X(03)00033-XPMID 12735952
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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