Northern rivers ecosystem initiative: Nutrients and dissolved oxygen - Issues and impacts

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 113, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 117-141

  Chambers, Patricia A ^a   Culp, Joseph M ^a   Glozier, Nancy E ^a   Cash, Kevin J ^a   Wrona, Fred J ^a   Noton, Leigh ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algae; Benthic invertebrates; Canada; Dissolved oxygen; Nitrogen; Nutrients; Periphyton; Phosphorus; Pulp mills; Rivers

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN; PAPER AND PULP MILLS; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS;

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; CANADA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NUTRIENTS; PERIPHYTON;

ECOSYSTEMS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; NUTRIENT;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUTROPHICATION; MESOCOSM; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRODUCTIVITY; PULP MILL; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; WINTER;

ALBERTA; ALGAE; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; SOLUBILITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33645468672     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-9099-z     Document Type: Article

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