Chlorine dynamics and ambient toxicity in receiving streams

Ecological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 458-471

  Stewart, A J ^a   Hill, W R ^a   Ham, K D ^a,c   Christensen, S W ^a   Beauchamp, J J ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient toxicity; Biological monitoring; Ceriodaphnia dubia; Clean water act compliance; Daphnid bioassays; Logistic regression; Stream ecotoxicology; Total residual chlorine; Toxicity models; Water quality monitoring

Indexed keywords

CERIODAPHNIA; CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; DAPHNIIDAE; CLADOCERA;

CHLORINE; DIEL CYCLE; TOXICITY;

EID: 0030401709     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269383     Document Type: Article

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