Influence of confounding factors on SQGs and their application to estuarine and marine sediment evaluations

Use of Sediment Quality Guidelines and Related Tools for the Assessment of Contaminated Sediments

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 633-686

  Word, Jack Q ^a   Gardiner, William W ^a   Moore, David W ^a  

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