Characterizing aquatic health using salmonid mortality, physiology, and biomass estimates in streams with elevated concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc in the boulder river watershed, Montana

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 450-467

  Farag, Aída M ^a   Skaar, Don ^b   Nimick, David A ^a   MacConnell, Elizabeth ^c   Hogstrand, Christer ^d  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BIOMONITORING; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; HEAVY METAL; MINE WASTE; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RIVER POLLUTION;

UNITED STATES;

FONTINALIS; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKI; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 0037904320     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2003)132<0450:CAHUSM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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