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A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF TOXICITY BY BIOASSAY OF THE WASTES OF PULP AND PAPER PRODUCTION UNITS

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Ecotoxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment and Multiple Stressors

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The wastewaters from pulp and paper production units are considered significant pollutants because of their physicochemical characteristics (color, suspended solids, high organic load, chlorinated compounds, tannins, lignins, etc.).

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  1. Department of Biology, Unit of Environmental Management, Pollution and Ecotoxicology, University of Patras, Patras, Rio, 26500, Greece

    Nicolas VENETSANEAS & Joan ILIOPOULOU-GEORGUDAKI

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  1. Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

    Gerassimos Arapis

  2. International Sakharov Environmental University Minsk, Belarus

    Nadezhda Goncharova

  3. Cornell University Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.

    Philippe Baveye

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VENETSANEAS, N., ILIOPOULOU-GEORGUDAKI, J. (2006). A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF TOXICITY BY BIOASSAY OF THE WASTES OF PULP AND PAPER PRODUCTION UNITS. In: Arapis, G., Goncharova, N., Baveye, P. (eds) Ecotoxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment and Multiple Stressors. NATO Security Through Science Series, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4476-3_22

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