Chronic ammonia toxicity to duckweed-fed tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

Aquaculture

Volumn 232, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 117-127

  El Shafai, Saber A ^a   El Gohary, Fatma A ^a   Nasr, Fayza A ^a   Van Der Steen, N Peter ^b   Gijzen, Huub J ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic ammonia toxicity; Domestic sewage; Duckweed; Lemna gibba; Oreochromis niloticus; Un ionised ammonia

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AQUACULTURE; GROWTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

LEMNA; LEMNA GIBBA; OREOCHROMIS; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; TILAPIA;

EID: 1542321479     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0044-8486(03)00516-7     Document Type: Article

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