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Acute and chronic toxicity of produced water from a North Sea oil production platform to the calanoid copepodAcartia tonsa

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Girling, A.E. Acute and chronic toxicity of produced water from a North Sea oil production platform to the calanoid copepodAcartia tonsa . Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 43, 280–286 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01701759

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