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Debate/commentary: How useful are single‐species toxicity tests?

Toxicological testing in laboratories is not ecological testing of toxicology

A. J. Underwood Institute of Marine Ecology, Marine Ecology Laboratories A11, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
Pages 178-182 | Published online: 02 Dec 2008

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