Diamondback terrapins, Malaclemys terrapin, as a sentinel species for monitoring mercury pollution of estuarine systems in South Carolina and Georgia, USA

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

• Publication date

  2007-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1897/06-532R.1PMID 17665684
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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