Assessment of air pollution by mercury in South African provinces using lichens Parmelia caperata as bioindicators

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• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Environmental Geochemistry and Health

• Publication date

  2019-03-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10653-019-00283-wPMID 30915596
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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