Biomonitoring survey of trace metal pollution in streams of a catchment draining a zinc and lead mining area of Upper Silesia, Poland using the amphipod Gammarus fossarum

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 187-200

  Fialkowski, Wojciech ^a   Fialkowska, Edyta ^a   Smith, Brian D ^b   Rainbow, Philip S ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphipods; Biomonitoring; Streams; Trace metals; Upper Silesia

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; CRUSTACEAN; MINE DRAINAGE; TRACE METAL; WATER POLLUTION;

POLAND;

AMPHIPODA; CRUSTACEA; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS FOSSARUM;

EID: 0038444247     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.200390014     Document Type: Article

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