Litter mercury deposition in the Amazonian rainforest.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Environmental Pollution

• Publication date

  2015-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.08.010PMID 26312742
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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