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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
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Xiaoli Zhou, Rong Hu, Yanming Fang
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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
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ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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Mantong Jin, Shunfei Zhang, Nanxi Ye, Shanshan Zhou, Ziyu Xu
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Yan Zhang, Xu Li, Heng Zhang, Wenxiu Liu, Yang Liu, Changsheng Guo, Jian Xu, Fengchang Wu
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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
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Environmental Sciences
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Environmental Sciences
Zhaoyun Liu, Fugeng Zha, Yinghong Wang, Bin Yuan, Baoxian Liu, Guiqian Tang
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Environmental Sciences
Yiru Bai, Yuhan Zhang, Xu Liu, Youqi Wang
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ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
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Environmental Sciences
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ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES
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