Review of cleaning techniques and their effects on the chemical composition of foliar samples

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 263-272

  Oliva, Sabina Rossini ^a   Raitio, Hannu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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