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Original Articles

The use of pulse-amplitude modulated (PAM) fluorescence-based methods to evaluate effects of herbicides in microalgal systems of different complexity

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Pages 665-681 | Received 19 Nov 2004, Accepted 24 May 2005, Published online: 20 Sep 2007

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