Effects of iron, aluminium, dissolved humic material and acidity on grayling (Thymallus thymallus) in laboratory exposures, and a comparison of sensitivity with brown trout (Salmo trutta)

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 405-419

  Vuorinen, Pekka J ^a   Keinänen, Marja ^a   Peuranen, Seppo ^a   Tigerstedt, Christina ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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