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Relationship between soil invertebrate abundance and soil heavy metal contents in the environs of the Kosogorsky Metallurgical Plant, Tula oblast

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Original Russian Text © K.B. Gongalsky, Zh.V. Filimonova, A.S. Zaitsev, 2010, published in Ekologiya, 2010, No. 1, pp. 70–73.

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Gongalsky, K.B., Filimonova, Z.V. & Zaitsev, A.S. Relationship between soil invertebrate abundance and soil heavy metal contents in the environs of the Kosogorsky Metallurgical Plant, Tula oblast. Russ J Ecol 41, 67–70 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413610010133

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