Food chain organisms in hypersaline, industrial evaporation ponds

Water Environment Research

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 494-505

  Tanner, René ^a   Glenn, Edward P ^a,b   Moore, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b 2601 West Airport Drive   (United States)

Author keywords

Algae; Artemia; Brine shrimp; Diatoms; Evaporation ponds; Salinity; Selenium; Waterfowl; Zero discharge

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIOLOGY; BRINES; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVAPORATION; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SELENIUM; TOXICITY;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; ARTEMIA; BRINE SHRIMP; DIATOMS; FOOD CHAIN ORGANISMS; HYPERSALINE; INDUSTRIAL EVAPORATION PONDS; SALINITY; WATERFLOW; ZERO DISCHARGE EVAPORATION PONDS;

WASTEWATER DISPOSAL;

NITRATE; SELENIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BRINE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOOD CHAIN; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; POLLUTION; POND;

ALGA; AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FOWL; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; WASTE WATER;

ARIZONA; PHOENIX; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANATIDAE; ANOSTRACA; ARTEMIA; ARTEMIA FRANCISCANA; AVES; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BRACHYDANIO REFIO; CHAETOCEROS; CHAETOCEROS SP.; CYANOBACTERIA; DANIO RERIO; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GALLIFORMES; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; NITZSCHIA; NITZSCHIA FRUSTULUM; PHOENIX; PODICEPS NIGRICOLLIS; PODICIPEDIDAE; PONTOPORIA BLAINVILLEI; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRICHOCORIXA;

EID: 0032803018     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143097X122149     Document Type: Article

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