Heavy metals in the gonads and hepatopancreas of spiders (Araneae) from variously polluted areas

Ekologia Bratislava

Volumn 19, Issue 9993, 2000, Pages 283-292

  Wilczek, Grazyna ^a   Babczyńska, Agnieszka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

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