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Biomonitoring of radioactive contamination using benthic invertebrate communities in Manzala Lake, Egypt Cover

Biomonitoring of radioactive contamination using benthic invertebrate communities in Manzala Lake, Egypt

By: Noha Imam and  Reda E. Bendary  
Open Access
|Jun 2023

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