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How polluted is the Yangtze river? Water quality downstream from the Three Gorges Dam
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Metadata
- Authors
- Müller, B., Berg, M., Yao, Z. P., Zhang, X. F., Wang, D., & Pfluger, A.
- Venue
- Science of The Total Environment
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-09-01
- Volume
- 402
- Issue
- 2-3
- Pages
- 232-247
- ISSN
- 0048-9697 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2057505740
- Cited by
- 310
- References
- 30
- FWCI
- 12.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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