Bioassessment of an appalachian headwater stream influenced by an abandoned arsenic mine

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 488-496

  Valenti, Theodore W ^a   Chaffin, Jake L ^a   Cherry, Donald S ^a   Schreiber, Madeline E ^a   Valett, H Maurice ^a   Charles, Megan ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; BENTHOS; BIOASSAY; MINE DRAINAGE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DAPHNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EPHEMEROPTERA; LABORATORY TEST; LC 50; LEPIDOSTOMA; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MINING; NONHUMAN; PLECOPTERA; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEDIMENT; SPIKE; STREAM (RIVER); TOXICITY; TRICHOPTERA; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DAPHNIA; FRESH WATER; INVERTEBRATES; MINING; POISONS; VIRGINIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; EPHEMEROPTERA; LEPIDOSTOMA; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 27544459591     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-004-0222-x     Document Type: Article

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