A Layperson's primer on multiple stressors

NATO Security through Science Series C: Environmental Security

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 57-69

  Hinton, Thomas G ^a   Aizawa, Kouichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Effects; Interactions; Mixed stressors; Multiple contaminants

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548463830     PISSN: 18714668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6335-0_5     Document Type: Article

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