Are biological indices BMPW' and ASPT' and their significance regarding water quality seasonally dependent? Factors explaining their variations

Water Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 285-290

  Zamora Muñoz, Carmen ^a   Sáinz Cantero, Carmen E ^a   Sánchez Ortega, Antonino ^a   Alba Tercedor, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

biotic indices BMWP' and ASPT'; physico chemical factors; river pollution; seasonality

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

AVERAGE SCORE PER TAXON (ASPT); BIOLOGICAL MONITORING WORKING PARTY SCORE SYSTEM (BMWP); BIOTIC INDICES; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL FACTORS; RIVER POLLUTION; SEASONALITY;

WATER QUALITY;

AMMONIA; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; COPPER; DETERGENT; FAT; IRON; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; NICKEL; NITRATE; NITRITE; OIL; PESTICIDE; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SULFATE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; CONDUCTANCE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONHUMAN; PH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0028928977     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0043-1354(94)E0125-P     Document Type: Article

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