Zinc, among a 'cocktail' of metal pollutants, is responsible for the absence of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber from the vicinity of a primary smelting works.

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Published in Ecotoxicology on March 01, 1994

Authors

S P Hopkin¹, C A Hames

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, University of Reading, PO Box 228, RG6 2AJ, Reading, UK.

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