Assessing heavy metal pollution using Great Tits (Parus major): feathers and excrements from nestlings and adults

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Environmental Monitoring & Assessment

• Publication date

  2013-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10661-012-2949-6PMID 23086543
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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