Municipal wastewater can result in a dramatic decline in freshwater fishes: a lesson from a developing country | Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems

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Issue		Knowl. Manag. Aquat. Ecosyst. Number 419, 2018 Topical Issue on Fish Ecology


Article Number		37
Number of page(s)		12
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/kmae/2018025
Published online		24 September 2018

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