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Toxicity of 21 herbicides to the green alga Scenedesmus quadricauda
1Department of Resource and Environment, Zhejiang Forestry College, Linan 311300, People's Republic of China.
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
|October 22, 2003
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