UVR sensitivity of Chaoborus larvae

Ambio

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 219-224

  Persaud, Anurani D ^a   Yan, Norman D ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALIA; CHAOBORUS; CHAOBORUS PUNCTIPENNIS; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 0038576347     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.3.219     Document Type: Article

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62. Kevin Shaughnessy assisted in data collection in the field. We thank York University's technical staff, especially John Currell, the staff of the Freshwater Ecology Co-op Unit in Sudbury and the Killarney Park staff for their assistance. This project was supported by a National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) postgraduate scholarship awarded to Anurani Persaud and an NSERC Industrial-Oriented Research Grant to N.D. Yan and J. Gunn. The industrial sponsors were INCO and Falconbridge.