Gut content weight and clearance rate for three species of freshwater invertebrates

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 223-228

  Brooke, Larry T ^a   Ankley, Gerald T ^a   Call, Daniel J ^a   Cook, Philip M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SUPERIOR   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Bioaccumulation; Gut; Invertebrate; Sediment

Indexed keywords

CARBON; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; ASH; BIOACCUMULATION; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLEARANCE; FLY; INTESTINE; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WEIGHT;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; CANIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS TENTANS; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAGENIA LIMBATA; INVERTEBRATA; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA);

EID: 0030019760     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1996)015<0223:GCWACR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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