Impacts of nonpoint inputs from potato farming on populations of slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2291-2298

  Gray, Michelle A ^a   Curry, R Allen ^a   Munkittrick, Kelly R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agricultural impacts; Environmental monitoring; Sediment deposition; Slimy sculpin; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; CATCHMENTS; CULTIVATION; SEDIMENTS; TEMPERATURE;

AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SLIMY SCULPIN;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; DEPOSITION; MONITORING; SEDIMENTATION;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; COTTUS COGNATUS; FISH; FOREST; NONHUMAN; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; CADMIUM; CANADA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; KINETICS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

COTTUS COGNATUS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 23944490377     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/04-615R.1     Document Type: Article

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