Toxicity study of a Chesapeake Bay tributary - Wicomico River

Chemosphere

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1193-1215

  Gupta, Gian ^a   Karuppiah, Makesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; RIVER WATER; SULFANILAMIDE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO; WATER SAMPLING;

CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO FISCHERI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

SEDIMENT TOXICITY; SEWAGE OUTFALL; TOXICITY TEST;

USA, MARYLAND, WICOMICO RIVER, USA, (NORTHEAST), CHESAPEAKE BAY;

EID: 0029661769     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-6535(96)00034-3     Document Type: Article

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