Linking ecological impact to metal concentrations and speciation: A microcosm experiment using a salt marsh meiofaunal community

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2029-2037

  Millward, R N ^a   Carman, K R ^a   Fleeger, J W ^a   Gambrell, R P ^a   Powell, R T ^a   Rouse, M A M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deposit feeders; Meiofauna; Toxicity; Trophic strategy; Uptake route

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXATION; ECOLOGY; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SEDIMENTS; TOXICITY;

METAL CONCENTRATION;

WATER POLLUTION;

HEAVY METAL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; COPEPOD; ECOLOGY; FAUNA; INTOXICATION; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INVERTEBRATES; LIGANDS; METALS, HEAVY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VOLATILIZATION; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; COPEPODA; GASTROPODA; NEMATODA; OSTRACODA; POLYCHAETA; STREBLOSPIO BENEDICTI;

EID: 0034887413     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620200923     Document Type: Article

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