The use of water chemistry and benthic diatom communities for qualification of a polluted tropical river in Costa Rica

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 395-416

  Silva Benavides, Ana Margarita ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NONE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Costa rica; Diatoms; Differential species groups; Numerical vegetation analysis; Organic pollution; Tropical river; Water chemistry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COSTA RICA; DIATOM; EUTROPHICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PLANKTON; TROPIC CLIMATE; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; COSTA RICA; DIATOMS; EUTROPHICATION; PLANKTON; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0030202311     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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