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Maiju Lehtiniemi, Okko Outinen, Riikka Puntila-Dodd
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2020)
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Marine & Freshwater Biology
R. Puntila-Dodd, D. Bekkevold, J. W. Behrens
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Environmental Sciences
Lorenzo Vilizzi, Gordon H. Copp, Jeffrey E. Hill, Boris Adamovich, Luke Aislabie, Daniel Akin, Abbas J. Al-Faisal, David Almeida, M. N. Amal Azmai, Rigers Bakiu, Adriana Bellati, Renee Bernier, Jason M. Bies, Gokcen Bilge, Paulo Branco, Thuyet D. Bui, Joao Canning-Clode, Henrique Anatole Cardoso Ramos, Gustavo A. Castellanos-Galindo, Nuno Castro, Ratcha Chaichana, Paula Chainho, Joleen Chan, Almir M. Cunico, Amelia Curd, Punyanuch Dangchana, Dimitriy Dashinov, Phil I. Davison, Mariele P. de Camargo, Jennifer A. Dodd, Allison L. Durland Donahou, Lennart Edsman, F. Guler Ekmekci, Jessica Elphinstone-Davis, Tibor Eros, Charlotte Evangelista, Gemma Fenwick, Arpad Ferincz, Teresa Ferreira, Eric Feunteun, Halit Filiz, Sandra C. Forneck, Helen S. Gajduchenko, Joao Gama Monteiro, Ignacio Gestoso, Daniela Giannetto, Allan S. Gilles, Francesca Gizzi, Branko Glamuzina, Luka Glamuzina, Jesica Goldsmit, Stephan Gollasch, Philippe Goulletquer, Joanna Grabowska, Rogan Harmer, Phillip J. Haubrock, Dekui He, Jeffrey W. Hean, Gabor Herczeg, Kimberly L. Howland, Ali Ilhan, Elena Interesova, Katarina Jakubcinova, Anders Jelmert, Stein Johnsen, Tomasz Kakareko, Kamalaporn Kanongdate, Nurcin Killi, Jeong-Eun Kim, Serife Gulsun Kirankaya, Dominika Knazovicka, Oldrich Kopecky, Vasil Kostov, Nicholas Koutsikos, Sebastian Kozic, Tatia Kuljanishvili, Biju Kumar, Lohith Kumar, Yoshihisa Kurita, Irmak Kurtul, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Laura Lee, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Giovanni Leonardi, Rob S. E. W. Leuven, Shan Li, Tatsiana Lipinskaya, Fei Liu, Lance Lloyd, Massimo Lorenzoni, Sergio Alberto Luna, Timothy J. Lyons, Kit Magellan, Martin Malmstrom, Agnese Marchini, Sean M. Marr, Gerard Masson, Laurence Masson, Cynthia H. McKenzie, Daniyar Memedemin, Roberto Mendoza, Dan Minchin, Laurence Miossec, Seyed Daryoush Moghaddas, Moleseng C. Moshobane, Levan Mumladze, Rahmat Naddafi, Elnaz Najafi-Majd, Aurel Nastase, Ion Navodaru, J. Wesley Neal, Sarah Nienhuis, Matura Nimtim, Emma T. Nolan, Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Henn Ojaveer, Sergej Olenin, Karin Olsson, Norio Onikura, Kathryn O'Shaughnessy, Daniele Paganelli, Paola Parretti, Jiri Patoka, Richard Thomas B. Pavia Jr, Daniele Pellitteri-Rosa, Michele Pelletier-Rousseau, Elfritzson M. Peralta, Costas Perdikaris, Dariusz Pietraszewski, Marina Piria, Sophie Pitois, Laura Pompei, Nicolas Poulet, Cristina Preda, Riikka Puntila-Dodd, Ali T. Qashqaei, Tena Radocaj, Hossein Rahmani, Smrithy Raj, David Reeves, Milica Ristovska, Viktor Rizevsky, D. Ross Robertson, Peter Robertson, Laura Ruykys, AbdulwakilO Sab, Jose M. Santos, Hasan M. Sari, Pedro Segurado, Vitaliy Semenchenko, Wansuk Senanan, Nathalie Simard, Predrag Simonovic, MichalE Skora, Kristina Slovak Svolikova, Evangelia Smeti, Tereza Smidova, Ivan Spelic, Greta Srebaliene, Gianluca Stasolla, Paul Stebbing, Barbora Stevove, Vettath R. Suresh, Bettina Szajbert, Kieu Anh T. Ta, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Jonathan Tempesti, Thomas W. Therriault, Hannah J. Tidbury, Nildeniz Top-Karakus, Elena Tricarico, DeboraF A. Troca, Konstantinos Tsiamis, Quenton M. Tuckett, Pero Tutman, Umut Uyan, Eliza Uzunova, Leonidas Vardakas, Gaute Velle, Hugo Verreycken, Lizaveta Vintsek, Hui Wei, Andras Weiperth, Olaf L. F. Wey, Emily R. Winter, Radoslaw Wlodarczyk, Louisa E. Wood, Ruibin Yang, Sercan Yapici, Shayne S. B. Yeo, Baran Yogurtcuoglu, Anna L. E. Yunnie, Yunjie Zhu, Grzegorz Zieba, Kristina Zitnanova, Stacey Clarke
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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)