An assessment of sediment toxicity in the River Tyne Estuary, UK by means of bioassays

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-15

  Matthiessen, P ^a   Bifield, S ^a   Jarrett, F ^b   Kirby, M F ^a   Law, R J ^a   McMinn, W R ^a,c   Sheahan, D A ^a   Thain, J E ^a   Whale, G F ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b SHELL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; POLLUTION MONITORING; ROXICITY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXICITY;

ALGA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; COPEPOD; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; POLYCHAETA; SEDIMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; VIBRIONACEAE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

UK, ENGLAND, TYNESIDE TYNE ESTUARY;

ACARTIA TONSA; ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; ARENICOLA MARINA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; COPEPODA; COROPHIUM; CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; OSTREIDAE; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHOTOBACTERIUM PHOSPHOREUM; POLYCHAETA; TETRASELMIS SUECICA; THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA; TISBE BATTAGLIAI; VIBRIONACEAE;

EID: 0032007841     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-1136(96)00098-0     Document Type: Article

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