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. 2003 Apr;111(4):A198–A199. doi: 10.1289/ehp.111-a198

Marine pollution: the future challenge is to link human and wildlife studies.

Bjørn Munro Jenssen
PMCID: PMC1241462  PMID: 12676633

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