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Salinated water in abandoned mine pit lake favors invasive species dominance.

Mine Water and the Environment
Analysis of Macrobenthic Communities in a Post-Mining Sulphur Pit Lake (Poland)
Aneta Bylak, Wojciech Rak, Magdalena Wójcik, Ewa Kukuła, Krzysztof Kukuła

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