Relationships between river sediment characteristics and trace metal concentrations in tubificid worms and chironomid larvae

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 345-356

  Bervoets, Lieven ^a   Blust, Ronny ^a   De Wit, Machtetd ^a   Verheyen, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; IRON OXIDE; LEAD; MANGANESE OXIDE; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BELGIUM; BIOACCUMULATION; CHIRONOMIDAE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SEDIMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; MIDGE; SEDIMENT; ZINC;

BELGIUM, FLANDERS;

CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; OLIGOCHAETA; TUBIFICIDAE;

EID: 0030818881     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(96)00134-0     Document Type: Article

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