Modelling cadmium accumulation by benthic invertebrates in situ: The relative contributions of sediment and overlying water reservoirs to organism cadmium concentrations

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1442-1454

  Warren, Lesley A ^a,b   Tessier, André ^a   Hare, Landis ^a  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; LAKE; SEDIMENT; WATER COLUMN; ZOOBENTHOS;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS STAEGERI; INVERTEBRATA; TUBIFICIDAE;

EID: 0031796214     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.7.1442     Document Type: Article

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