Nitrate impacts on the Florida apple snail, Pomacea paludosa

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 568, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 135-143

  Corrao, Norah Myers ^a   Darby, Philip C ^a   Pomory, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastropoda; Growth; Pollution; Survival; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); NITRATES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SPRINGS (WATER); TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

GASTROPODA; GROWTH; SURVIVAL; TOXICOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; NITRATE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; SNAIL;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GASTROPODA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; POMACEA PALUDOSA;

EID: 33746833611     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0199-8     Document Type: Article

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