The effect of cooling seawater effluents of a power plant on growth rate of cultured Gracilaria conferta (Rhodophyta)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 332, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 167-174

  Friedlander, M ^a   Levy, D ^b   Hornung, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b DN Hefer   (Israel)

Author keywords

biofilter; copper pollution; cultivation; Gracilaria; power plant

Indexed keywords

GRACILARIA CONFERTA; ALGAE; GRACILARIA; RHODOPHYTA; ULVA;

COOLING WATER; COPPER; CULTIVATION; POLLUTION; POWER PLANT;

EID: 0030303126     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00031922     Document Type: Article

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