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Toxicity of Arsenic on Two Tropical Marine Phytoplankton

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Environmental Stress: Indication, Mitigation and Eco-conservation

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Heavy metals which pose a threat to human health also damage ecosystems and species important to the quality of life. One of the organisms affected by these pollutants are the marine phytoplanktons which are essential to the normal function of marine ecosystems (Walsh, 1988). As primary producers, phytoplankton form the basis of the food chain and a drastic change in the population due to a substance and its accumulation by the algae may influence higher trophic levels.

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  1. Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India

    Mohammad Yunus

  2. National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, India

    Nandita Singh

  3. University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

    Luit J. de Kok

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Melor, I., Phang, S.M., Tong, S.L. (2000). Toxicity of Arsenic on Two Tropical Marine Phytoplankton. In: Yunus, M., Singh, N., de Kok, L.J. (eds) Environmental Stress: Indication, Mitigation and Eco-conservation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9532-2_21

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