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Heavy metal dynamics in the periphyton in small rivers of Kola Peninsula

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The results of studies of heavy metal accumulation by periphyton algae in 12 rivers of Kola Peninsula are presented. The potentiality of the use of periphyton in heavy metal monitoring in water bodies is discussed.

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  1. Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushkinskaya 11, Petrozavodsk, 185910, Russia

    S. F. Komulainent

  2. Institute of Forest, Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushkinskaya 11, Petrozavodsk, 185910, Russia

    A. K. Morozov

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Original Russian Text © S.F. Komulainent, A.K. Morozov, 2010, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 752–756.

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Komulainent, S.F., Morozov, A.K. Heavy metal dynamics in the periphyton in small rivers of Kola Peninsula. Water Resour 37, 874–878 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807810060138

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