Copper, copper mining effluents and grazing as potential determinants of algal abundance and diversity in northern Chile

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 265-281

  Correa, Juan A ^a   Ramírez, Marco A ^a   De La Harpe, Jean Paul ^a   Román, Domingo ^b   Rivera, Lidia ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTOFAGASTA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Algal diversity; Coastal water; Copper

Indexed keywords

ALGAL ABUNDANCE; ALGAL DIVERSITY; COASTAL WATER; COPPER MINING EFFLUENTS; HERBIVORY; NORTHERN CHILE;

ALGAE; COASTAL ZONES; COPPER; COPPER MINES; EFFLUENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROWTH KINETICS;

ECOLOGY;

COPPER;

COPPER; GRAZING; MINING INDUSTRY; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHILE; GROWTH; MINING; NONHUMAN; REGENERATION;

CHILE;

ALGAE; LESSONIA NIGRESCENS;

EID: 0342615030     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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