Forest fire indicators and mercury deposition in an intense land use change region in the Brazilian Amazon (Alta Floresta, MT).

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Science of the Total Environment

• Publication date

  2002-07-03

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00045-1PMID 12109477
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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