Trace metal levels in chironomid larvae and sediments from a Bolivian river: Impact of mining activities

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 275-283

  Bervoets, Lieven ^a   Solis, Danilo ^b   Romero, Ana Maria ^b   Damme, Paul André Van ^b,c   Ollevier, Frans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; NICKEL; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

LARVA; MINING; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TRACE METAL;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BIOACCUMULATION; BOLIVIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXTRACTION; LARVA; MINING; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER; SEDIMENT;

BOLIVIA;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031798101     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/eesa.1998.1707     Document Type: Article

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