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Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volume 54, Issue 9, September 2007, Pages 1545-1558
Marine Pollution Bulletin

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Temporal trends of metals in benthic invertebrate species from the Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean

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The authors are indebted to the Colegio de Farmaceuticos de les Balears for analytical procedures. This study was partly financed by the Interreg Medoc IIIB, UE Project: ‘Development d’un réseau de surveillance de la qualité des eaux côtières par des biointégrateurs pour la protection durable de la Méditerranée Occidentale (MYTILOS)’. The authors D. March and A. Box received a fellowship sponsored by the MYTILOS project Interreg Medoc IIIB.

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