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Lehtonen, K.K., Bignert, A., Bradshaw, C., Broeg, K., Schiedek, D. (2017). Chemical pollution and ecotoxicology. In: Snoeijs-Leijonmalm, P., Schubert, H., Radziejewska, T. (eds) Biological Oceanography of the Baltic Sea. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0668-2_16

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