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Original Articles

Distribution of epiphytic diatoms on five macrophytes from a Pampean shallow lake: host-specificity and implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions

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Pages 263-275 | Received 22 Apr 2017, Accepted 31 Aug 2017, Published online: 18 Oct 2017

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