Assessing sediments from Upper Mississippi River navigational pools using a benthic invertebrate community evaluation and the sediment quality triad approach

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 202-212

  Canfield, T J ^a,b   Brunson, E L ^a   Dwyer, F J ^a   Ingersoll, C G ^a   Kemble, N E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIVER WATER;

BENTHIC COMMUNITY; BIOACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CLAM; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

USA, UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER;

BIVALVIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA);

EID: 0031847866     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002449900368     Document Type: Article

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