Filter feeding by the freshwater mussel, Diplodon chilensis, as a biocontrol of salmon farming eutrophication

Aquaculture

Volumn 171, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 65-81

  Soto, Doris ^a   Mena, Guillermo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; Filter feeding; Freshwater mussel; Mitigation; Salmon

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; EUTROPHICATION; FILTER FEEDING; MOLLUSC;

CHILE;

BIVALVIA; DIPLODON CHILENSIS;

EID: 0033557340     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0044-8486(98)00420-7     Document Type: Article

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