Selection of flight feathers from Buteo buteo and Accipiter gentilis for use in biomonitoring heavy metal contamination.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Science of the Total Environment

• Publication date

  2012-05-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.03.017PMID 22481053
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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