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important risk to the local biota. It is being proposed that further studies and forthcoming monitoring would be
helpful to assess long term effects of anthropogenic inputs on the Black Sea coast.
Authors’ contributions
LB designed and conducted the experiment; prepared the samples for metal analysis, evaluate data and finalized the manuscript.
EYO contributed to the paper by processing the data and made figures and commented it. HBB performed critical review of the
manuscript. HCO contributed to the paper by collecting samples and help to prepare them for metal analysis. All authors read and
approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported in the Sinop University for Scientific Research Project; project number SÜF-1901-12-02. The project
coordinator was LB.
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