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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 123607, 7 pages
Disturbance of Opportunistic Small-Celled Phytoplankton in Lake Kinneret
The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
Received 23 August 2012; Accepted 13 December 2012
Academic Editors: R. Dolferus, K. Pawlowski, and A. Singh
Copyright © 2012 Yury Kamenir and Zvy Dubinsky. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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