Analyzing trophic transfer of metals in stream food webs using nitrogen isotopes

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 317, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 73-89

  Quinn, Margaret R ^a,b   Feng, Xiahong ^a   Folt, Carol L ^a   Chamberlain, C Page ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Aquatic ecology; Bioaccumulation; Macroinvertebrates; Nitrogen isotopes; Trophic position

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; WATER POLLUTION; ZINC;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE (AMD);

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ACID; COPPER; IRON; ISOTOPE; METAL; NITROGEN; ZINC;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BIOACCUMULATION; HEAVY METAL; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; INVERTEBRATE; LABORATORY TEST; MINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREAM (RIVER);

ANIMALS; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATES; IRON; MINING; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ZINC;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242468243     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00615-0     Document Type: Article

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