Body size affects lethal and sublethal responses to organic enrichment: Evidence of associational susceptibility for an infaunal bivalve.

@article{VadilloGonzalez2021BodySA,
  title={Body size affects lethal and sublethal responses to organic enrichment: Evidence of associational susceptibility for an infaunal bivalve.},
  author={Sebastian Vadillo Gonzalez and Emma L. Johnston and Katherine A. Dafforn and Wayne O'Connor and Paul E. Gribben},
  journal={Marine environmental research},
  year={2021},
  volume={169},
  pages={
          105391
        }
}
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