A methodology for modelling the contamination of moving organisms in water bodies with spatial and time dependent pollution levels

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 158, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 21-33

  Monte, Luigi ^a  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological uptake models; Biota movement models; Contamination of migrating species; Random walk

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FISH; MIGRATION; WATER POLLUTION;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; PISCES;

EID: 0037114465     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(02)00231-4     Document Type: Article

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