Validating species sensitivity distributions using salinity tolerance of riverine macroinvertebrates in the southern Murray-Darling Basin (Victoria, Australia)

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1865-1877

  Kefford, Ben J ^a   Nugegoda, Dayanthi ^a   Metzeling, Leon ^b   Fields, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EWATER COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROINVERTEBRATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOXICITY TEST; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DARLING BASIN; MURRAY BASIN;

EID: 33749247430     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F06-080     Document Type: Article

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