Demographic responses of estuarine polychaetes to pollutants: life table response experiments

Ecological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1295-1313

  Levin, Lisa ^a   Caswell, Hal ^b   Bridges, Todd ^c   Dibacco, Claudio ^a   Cabrera, Debra ^d   Plaia, Gayle ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^d North Carolina State University ^*  (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age at maturity; Capitella sp. I; Eutrophication; Hydrocarbons; Matrix population models: Organic enrichment; Pollution; Polychaetes; Population growth rate; Sensitivity; Sewage; Streblospio benedicti

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CAPITELLA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; POLYCHAETA; SPIRULINA; SPIRULINA SP.; STREBLOSPIO; STREBLOSPIO BENEDICTI; UNCULTURED CYANOBACTERIUM;

BLUE-GREEN ALGAE; DEMOGRAPHIC RESPONSES; DEMOGRAPHY; ESTUARINE ORGANISMS; HYDROCARBON; POLLUTION EFFECTS; SEDIMENT CONTAMINATION; SEWAGE;

EID: 0030438572     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269608     Document Type: Article

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