Riverine endosulfan concentrations in the Namoi River, Australia: Link to cotton field runoff and macroinvertebrate population densities

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1540-1551

  Leonard, Alex W ^a   Hyne, Ross V ^b   Lim, Richard P ^a   Pablo, Fleur ^b   Van Den Brink, Paul J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NSW Environment Protection Authority   (Australia)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Endosulfan; Hydrology; Macroinvertebrates; Passive samplers

Indexed keywords

ENDOSULFAN; RIVER WATER; RUNOFF;

ENDOSULFAN; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

AUSTRALIA; NAMOI RIVER; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ATALOPHLEBIA; BAETIS; CHEUMATOPSYCHE; ECNOMUS; JAPPA KUTERA; TASMANOCOENIS;

EID: 0034041108     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620190610     Document Type: Article

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