Relationships among exceedences of metals criteria, the results of ambient bioassays, and community metrics in mining-impacted streams

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1786-1795

  Griffith, Michael B ^a   Lazorchak, James M ^a   Herlihy, Alan T ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient bioassays; Ambient criteria; Community metrics; Sediments; Surface water

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CADMIUM; CONTAMINATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

BIOASSESSMENTS; BIOAVAILABILITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; METAL; SURFACE WATER; ZINC;

BIOASSAY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HEAVY METAL; STREAM;

AMBIENT BIOASSAY; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOMETRY; CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; CLADOCERA; COMMUNITY METRICS; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXCEEDENCE OF SEDIMENT THRESHOLD EFFECT LEVEL; FISH; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MINING; NONHUMAN; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT TOXICITY TEST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM (RIVER); TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES; WATER HARDNESS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CLADOCERA; COLORADO; DATA COLLECTION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS; MINING; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

AZTECA; CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; CLADOCERA; HYALELLA; HYALELLA AZTECA; PIMEPHALES; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2942522625     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-408     Document Type: Article

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