Heavy metals structure benthic communities in Colorado mountain streams

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 626-638

  Clements, William H ^a   Carlisle, Daren M ^a   Lazorchak, James M ^b   Johnson, Philip C ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic macroinvertebrate community structure; Biomonitoring; Heavy metals and benthic communities; Heavy metal concentrations; Macroinvertebrates; Metal pollution and Rocky Mountain streams; Mining; Mountain streams and mining pollution; Rocky Mountain streams (Colorado, USA); Southern Rocky Mountain ecoregion; Spatial scale; Taxonomic aggregation

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HEAVY METAL; STREAM;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EPHEMEROPTERA; HEPTAGENIIDAE;

EID: 0033860987     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0626:HMSBCI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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