Aquatic macroinvertebrates in the Altes Land, an intensely used orchard region in Germany: Correlation between community structure and potential for pesticide exposure

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3275-3288

  Schäfers, Christoph ^a   Hommen, Udo ^a   Dembinski, Michael ^b   Gonzalez Valero, Juan F ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b PLANULA   (Germany)

^c SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ditches; Ecological monitoring; Macroinvertebrates; Orchards; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CORRELATION METHODS; MARINE BIOLOGY; SAMPLING;

ECOLOGICAL MONITORING; MACROINVERTEBRATES; SPECIES RICHNESS;

PESTICIDES;

PESTICIDE;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRASSLAND; INSECT; ISOPOD; MACROINVERTEBRATE; ORCHARD; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GERMANY; INSECT; INVERTEBRATE; ISOPODA; NONHUMAN; ORCHARD; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; DACTYLIS; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; INVERTEBRATES; PESTICIDES; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

ALTES LAND; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY;

EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; ISOPODA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 33846229682     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/05-677R.1     Document Type: Article

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