Macroinvertebrate biomonitoring in intermittent coastal plain streams impacted by animal agriculture

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1036-1043

  Davis, Stephanie ^a,c   Golladay, Stephen W ^a   Vellidis, George ^b   Pringle, Catherine M ^c  

^a JOSEPH W JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; ECOLOGY; OXYGEN; SILT; STRESSES;

BIOMONITORING;

RIVERS;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHIRONOMIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DEGRADATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FAUNA; FLY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INVERTEBRATE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; SEASHORE; STREAM (RIVER); STRESS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CREEDIIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0037613785     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2003.1036     Document Type: Article

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