Heavy metals in water, periphytonic algae, detritus, and insects from two streams in Shillong, Northeastern India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 215-223

  Gupta, A ^a  

^a St Edmund's College   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MANGANESE; ZINC;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); INDIA; INSECT; NONHUMAN; WATER POLLUTION;

ALGAE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCONCENTRATION; DETRITUS; HEAVY METAL; INSECT LARVA; STREAM; STREAMWATER QUALITY;

INDIA, MEGHALAYA, SHILLONG;

ALGAE; BAETIDAE; BAETIS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS RAMOSUS; DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYDROPSYCHE; INSECTA; TRICHOPTERA;

ALGAE; CADMIUM; CONTAMINATION; COPPER; ECOSYSTEMS; LEAD; MANGANESE; SURFACE WATERS; ZINC;

BIOCONCENTRATION; DETRITUS; INDIA; INSECTS; INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS; METAL CONCENTRATIONS;

HEAVY METALS;

EID: 0029663912     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00398867     Document Type: Article

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