期刊论文

Zhang, Hongling;Li, Yuanyuan

英文

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

0944-1344

2019

26

13

13464-13475

10.1007/s11356-019-04731-z

information This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91743101, 91643207 and 21437002), the National Key Research and Development Plan of China (2016YFC0206700 and 2016YFC0206203), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2016YXZD043 and 2018KFYXMPT00).

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