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Accumulation and environmental risk assessment of heavy metals in soil and plants of four different ecosystems in a former polymetallic ores mining and smelting area (Slovakia)

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Pages 479-490 | Received 22 Sep 2016, Accepted 30 Nov 2016, Published online: 27 Jan 2017

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