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Surface Pollution of Meadow Plants during the Period of Reduction of Atmospheric Emissions from a Copper Smelter

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ACKNOWLEGEMENTS

The author is grateful to P.V. Kondratkov for the collection of plant material, A.V. Schepetkin for the measurement of metal concentrations, and to D.V. Nesterkova, E.L. Vorobeichik, and Yu.A. Davydova for discussion and comments on the manuscript.

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The work was carried out under the state assignment of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Nesterkov, A.V. Surface Pollution of Meadow Plants during the Period of Reduction of Atmospheric Emissions from a Copper Smelter. Russ J Ecol 50, 408–412 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106741361904012X

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