Ecological and potential health risk assessment of heavy metals in soils and food crops grown in abandoned urban open waste dumpsite
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2052-336X
DOI: 10.1007/s40201-020-00497-6