Acute Toxicity of an Acid Mine Drainage Mixing Zone to Juvenile Bluegill and Largemouth Bass

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 919-928

  Henry, Theodore B ^b   Irwin, Elise R ^c   Grizzle, John M ^b   Wildhaber, Mark L ^c   Brumbaugh, William G ^c  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ALUMINUM; ECOTOXICITY; IRON; MORTALITY; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEASONALITY; TOXICITY TESTING;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; FISH; MORTALITY; TOXICITY;

LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS;

EID: 0033406625     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1999)128<0919:ATOAAM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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