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Quantifying Fish Swimming Behavior in Response to Acute Exposure of Aqueous Copper Using Computer Assisted Video and Digital Image Analysis
Published on: February 26, 2016
Copper emission factors from intensive shrimp aquaculture
L D Lacerda1, J A Santos, R M Madrid
1Instituto de Ciências do Mar, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Av. Abolição 3207, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil. pgcmt@labomar.ufc.br <pgcmt@labomar.ufc.br>
Marine Pollution Bulletin
|October 31, 2006
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