Application of biological measures for stream integrity assessment in south-east Brazil

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 101, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 117-128

  Silveira, Mariana P ^a,c   Baptista, D F ^a   Buss, D F ^a   Nessimain, J L ^b   Egler, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Benthic macroinvertebrates; Biomonitoring; Metrics; South east Brazil; Tropical river

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS; RIFFLE LITTER; SHANNON INDEX; WATER CHEMISTRY;

STREAM FLOW;

BIOLOGICAL METHOD; BIOMONITORING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAMWATER; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BRAZIL; CHIRONOMIDAE; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; METRIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RIVER; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEDIMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14944363088     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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