Subchronic toxicity of low dissolved oxygen concentrations, elevated ph, and elevated ammonia concentrations to Lost River Suckers

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 656-666

  Meyer, Joseph S ^a   Hansen, James A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

AMMONIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PH; TOXICITY;

ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISH; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; MORTALITY; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PH; RURAL AREA; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

CATOSTOMIDAE; DELTISTES; DELTISTES LUXATUS;

EID: 0036315067     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2002)131<0656:STOLDO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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