The effects of metal contamination on earthworm populations around a smelting works: Quantifying species effects

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 147-160

  Spurgeon, David J ^a   Hopkin, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aporrectodea rosea; Lumbricus rubellus; Population density; Species sensitivity; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ALLOLOBOPHORA; ALLOLOBOPHORA CHLOROTICA; APORRECTODEA CALIGINOSA; APORRECTODEA ROSEA; CALIGINOSA; EISENIA FETIDA; LUMBRICUS CASTANEUS; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 0001037856     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0929-1393(96)00109-6     Document Type: Article

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